UGS DENNIS [DEBATE] : Platinum communities on Special Assignment Tonight at 20:00 (11 June)

[Dennis Brutus]

hey anne  GREAT SHOW TONIGHT; CONGRATS TO ALL; LETS HAVE A TAPE CIRCULATING -- MULTIPLE COPIES     DENNIS 

Anne Mayher <akmayher at gmail.com> wrote:   Greetings all,

Just alerting you that SABC 3's Special Assignment today, Wednesday,
11 June at 20:00 (time changed due to soccer!) will be on the problems
faced by Limpopo communities - Roka Malepe, Ga-Ratau and Ga-Pila - as
a consequence of the platinum mines (details below). Busi Ntuli, who
attended the Jubilee SA/ActionAid SA Extractive Industries and
Community Justice in Post-Apartheid South Africa Conference in April,
produced the programme.

Best,
Anne

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Mineral Curse (www.sabcnews.com/specialassignment)
We look at the tensions between mines and communities, and the
persistent forced removals which have lately been given politically
correct terms of "relocation and resettlement". Communities that find
themselves living on lands which are rich in minerals believe those
holding mineral rights beneath the land they occupy have unlimited
powers. Experts say that until a political solution is found to this
problem, these tensions, which have seen communities divided, and
violence erupting, will not end.
We visit three communities in Limpopo, divided by allegations of
bribery, rumours of importation of mercenaries from the DRC to protect
mine properties and families distraught at the desecration of their
graves.
Mineral Curse" is produced by Busisiwe Ntuli and filmed by Muzi Ntshiz

-- 
Anne Mayher
Email: akmayher at gmail.com
Mobile: 082 398 6882
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