"South Africa: Mining Company to Begin Mediation Talks With Northern Cape Community", 24 April 2017

Kumba Iron Ore representatives are expected to enter into mediation talks with the Dingleton community this week in a bid to resolve a dispute over land in the area. Kumba wants to relocate the entire town of Dingleton to a town 25km away...25 families remain and are refusing to move on Kumba’s terms...Kumba says the residents disrupted the process of rehabilitation of a site near a railway where blue asbestos was spilled years ago. The company needs to rehabilitate the site in order to expand its Sishen iron ore mine near Dingleton...Kumba is demanding over R1.6 million from residents who refused to relocate. The mining company says residents are “disrupting the process of rehabilitating” a site near the railway where blue asbestos was spilled years ago...[T]he mediation would be facilitated by human rights attorney Brian Currin.

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