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ANA reports that the Bench Marks Foundation (BMF) said on Thursday the plight of a community near Sishen Iron Ore mine in the Northern Cape highlighted the need to properly compensate people whose lives were impacted by mining.
John Capel of BMF was responding to reports about 25 families who were refusing to leave the town of Dingleton, Northern Cape, to make way for mining by Kumba Iron Ore. In a statement, he said this was a story of mining companies which negotiated with communities from a position of strength, rather than of fair play. He said the end result often was that people were persuaded to move for pitiful sums of money, which in no way reflected the value to the mining company of the land they owned. "Until mining companies play fair with communities in compensating them correctly according to the mineral rights contained in their land these kinds of disputes will continue," Capel said. Another community whose woes have recently been in the spotlight is that of the defunct Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine near Carletonville. A report released last week revealed that the 6,000 people of the village were existing on the edge of the mine in extreme poverty.
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