In “atoning” for the Marikana massacre, South Arica’s new president Cyril Ramaphosa says he’ll address the role he himself played in “the darkest moment” of post-apartheid life, as a director of the British mining company Lonmin.
Unreported documents show mining company was aware of threat before country’s worst environmental disaster but took no action, prosecutors allege
Biofuelwatch briefing about the UK Government’s coal phaseout decision announced in January 2018.
“Ramaphosa’s 2017 apology for the email phrasing [regarding Marikana] was dismissed by victims’ families as posturing, not genuine. His legally-binding commitment – as board head of Lonmin’s Transformation Committee in 2010-13 – to build 5500 houses for mineworkers was never met; during his reign only three were built, leaving the shack settlements of Wonderkop and Nkaneng without basic sanitation and electricity notwithstanding vast pylons overhead providing power to the platinum smelter a few hundred meters away”.
Will ordinary South African citizens be more justly served by Cyril Ramaphosa as head of the ANC, than they were by Zuma and his clique?
