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Article

7 Sep 2015

Author:
Firdaus Khan, Daily Vox (So. Africa)

So. Africa: Community protesting against Anglo American singles out lack of consultation as key grievance

'Why Ga-Mapela residents are burning up their small Limpopo town', 8 Sep 2015:…Communities, schools and even cemeteries have been moved to make way for [the Anglo Platinum mine in Mapela]…But much of the community surrounding it remains poor and jobless. Residents…[are] demanding that the mines employ those who live in the area…Lawyer to the protesters, Letlhogonolo Gaborone…[said] all…protesters want is to negotiate with the mine, so that they too…benefit from mining…The protesters are also up in arms about their children being moved…to a school in a neighbouring village…[to protect them from] mine blasting. The children were later moved again to a school set up by the mine…Mokete Khoda, an activist…said one of the community’s key grievances is that it would like to be consulted…“…We just wake up one day and find people building something, but…we don’t know who has been consulted,” he said. The community has since taken to destroying some of the buildings…Nine people, including a pregnant woman, are reported to have been injured…