Words fail me.

typical south africans

The mining company behind this Lonmin-

Our values -

"Zero Harm We are committed to zero harm to people and the environment.

Integrity, Honesty & Trust We are committed ethical people who do what we say we will do.

Transparency Open, honest communication and free sharing of information.

Respect For Each Other Embracing our diversity enriched by openness, sharing, trust, teamwork and involvement.

High Performance Stretching our individual and team capabilities to achieve innovative and superior outcomes".

www.lonmin.com/about_us/default.aspx

I read the situation like this.
The miner's Union has for good reason been allied with the ANC. Strong bonds exist, born of the Apartheid years.
Since the ANC came to power those bonds have meant that the Union has worked more for the ANC and subsequently the mining companies than the miners. Zuma and co are corrupt capitalist cronyist tossbags that most likely make Mandela weep.

The situation where the miners have not had proper representation by their Union led to the creation of a new Union designed to actually get the miners a fair wage. There are obviously massive tensions between those two Unions and being SA that means strikers are likely to be tooled up.

As the strike went on and the capitalists applied pressure for it to be broken, the Police tried to disperse strikers that are armed, a couple got killed and that then led to this slaughter.

Despite the Police Commissioner's comments which fully back the level of force used, I don't hold the Police ultimately responsible. Equally, I don't hold those miners who are tooled up as ultimately responsible.

The real responsibility for this goes to the crony capitalists who have continued to tun SA on the coroporofascist model, the original Union which sided with them rather than be what a Union should be and the tossers that brought/bring this model to the World.

I bet Thatcher wishes she could have done that at Orgreave.

One word:

Sickening:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19300420
Lonmin urges miners back to work after Marikana deaths

44 dead people, scores more wounded.........get back to work we're losing money........*******

Lonmin (formerly Lonrho plc prior to 1999) is the third largest platinum producer in the world and is listed in London.

Run by these guys

Roger Phillimore -Chairman

Ian Farmer - CEO

Alan Ferguson - CFO

Jonathan Leslie

Peter Godsoe

David Munro

Jim Sutcliffe

Karen de Segundo

Michael Hartnall

That chairman J. Roger B. Phillimore also works in the diamond and gold minig industry. Specifically Anglo American.during which...

www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Anglo_American

Hmm

That name again: J. Roger B. Phillimore.

.and his salary, employment roles and contact details in the link below

investing.businessweek.com/research/stoc...usTitle=LONMIN%20PLC

Here is his photo (he's on the left)


What a guy!


Excuse me

Aye and I see that Lonmin laid off 9000 not long ago over industrial action too..........

Nice people aint they

It's catching

Everything that I've ever heard about South Africa makes it sound like a truly awful place, this is just yet another reason to suppose that.

Oh, very important nation in the future as well, as they've formed a strong allegiance with China and Russia, I would assume due to their mineral wealth:

www.southafrica.info/global/brics/brics-080411.htm

According to Ms Dub, SA is an outstanding place WUB. Just one that's a long long way from being equitable, is riddled with racism, you know human stuff.

dubmeup wrote: Every time I hear South African cricketers being interviewed, they all live in gated estates and emphasise how much security there is. I've met numerous white South Africans who have an interesting view of race relations. I did meet an incredibly sexy woman from South Africa once. But she was married. And she said East London where she used to live was a shithole.

But Table Mountain looks alright and the weather's good. It's not my cup of tea, though. I couldn't go somewhere where I know racist attitudes are still commonplace and where there's such a huge social and wealth divide.

dubmeup wrote:

South africa is a christian country.....Very Christian Based So Everyone in Africa is is Equal in the Eyes of God, except if you're Black

I dont know if it's still the same but when Ms Dub grew up there, the Afrikaners were taught that the bible says that black people have no soul...... they were animals...

wake_up_bomb wrote: It aint just the cricketers I'm sad to say.....Ms Dubs sister lives in a gated community to this day and it seems to be the norm.