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Business Report writes that the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) is gearing up for an international campaign to have Lonmin’s mining licence revoked due to a number of reasons.
These include the events related to the 2012 Marikana massacre and alleged tax evasion by the company. Lonmin has come under fire following the release of the report of the Farlam inquiry into the deaths of 44 people during the strike-related unrest at its Marikana operations in August 2012. Brian Ashley, a director at AIDC, alleged on Friday that Lonmin was a rogue company involved in the looting of billions of rands from SA. The AIDC had previously alleged that Lonmin transferred R1.2 billion between 2008 and 2012 in commission fees to Bermuda, a tax haven. “As the AIDC, we will pursue a campaign for the company’s licence to be revoked and for the state owned mining company to take over the company … I am flying off to Geneva with Amcu president (Joseph Mathunjwa) to address a UN meeting on business and human rights to call for Lonmin’s licence to be revoked. We need to hold these huge corporations to account,” said Ashley. He added that compensation for the families of the families of the Marikana victims should be taken from “the huge profits through the company’s activities in tax havens.”
Meantime, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) plan to lay criminal charges against the company’s directors and have demanded that Lonmin compensate victims of the Marikana killings by way of R10 million per family of deceased mineworker and R5m per injured worker. In another development, Nomzamo Zondo, a director at the Socio-Economic Institute of South Africa (Seri), which represents 36 slain mineworkers, said on Friday the organisation would shortly institute civil claims.
- Read this report by Dineo Faku in full at Business Report
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