SAHRC report brings Anglo’s poor community relocation practices to light
November 6th, 2008
The South Africa Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) issued a report this week, which was prompted by ActionAid’s investigation into the effect of Anglo Platinum’s mining activities in Limpopo in March 2008. This report documented the potential violation of human rights of poor people as a result of mining activities. AngloPlat is a subsidiary of Anglo American PLC.
Action Aid finds that, overall, the SAHRC report states that Anglo Platinum has:
- Failed to improve adequate farming land to the Mohlohlo communities after being relocated.
- Failed to ensure adequate access to water to communities undergoing relocation.
- Failed to give all people full monetary compensation for loss of land and not compensated people for the delay in the provision of new land.
- Failed to ensure that communities post-relocation would receive adequate services.
- Delegated responsibility for negotiating with the community to ‘potentially unrepresentative’ bodies which had no experience of community consultations.
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