Rights group says mining companies must confront human rights violations

03 february 2020 - 10:59:25
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - As the world’s biggest mining investment conference begins in Cape Town, Amnesty International is asking [...] Full text...

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South Africa commemorates Marikana Massacre

16 august 2019 - 11:24:38
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Thousands of miners on Friday converged at Marikana, the scene of the worst act [...] Full text...

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Post-Zuma gov't must ensure access to justice for victims of rights violations - AI

15 february 2018 - 07:21:43
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) said on Thursday that the successor of South African [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Former AU chairperson forced to flee from site of 2012 massacre

22 august 2017 - 14:10:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former African Union (AU) chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, was chased by angry miners on Tuesday [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Rights body urges swift justice for Marakana shooting victims

15 august 2017 - 10:38:58
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Amnesty International has called on the South African authorities to ensure police officers suspected of criminal [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Rights group hails Marikana compensation pledge

13 december 2016 - 06:38:59
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Amnesty International says South African President Jacob Zuma’s long-overdue announcement that the government is ready [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Rights group says Lomin fails to improve ‘appalling’ housing for workers

15 august 2016 - 11:22:28
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, says British platinum mining giant Lonmin Plc is still failing [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Mine massacre documentary wins Emmy Award

24 november 2015 - 09:38:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A hard-hitting documentary on the 2012 Marikana massacre when striking miners were killed by [...] Full text...

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Kenya: Rights body wants South African cops behind Marikana killings, cover-up suspended

14 august 2015 - 18:22:23
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - All members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) implicated in the Marikana killings and subsequent [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Ramaphosa charged over mine massacre

03 july 2015 - 15:37:22
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Julius Malema, the leader of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters, on Friday visited the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Police commissioner on the ropes over mine massacre report

26 june 2015 - 11:58:07
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega, who has come under fire for her [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Zuma's office fights against release of massacre report

08 june 2015 - 11:00:51
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma’s office is fighting a challenge to force the release [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Zuma under pressure to release mine massacre report

26 may 2015 - 14:30:43
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Jacob Zuma is facing mounting pressure to release the Farlam Commission of Inquiry [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Deputy President gets the middle finger in Parliament

17 september 2014 - 16:35:02
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – For the second time in less than a month, Economic Freedom Fighter leader Julius [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Deputy President on the firing line at investigation commission

12 august 2014 - 14:04:30
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African's Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Tuesday spent his second day on the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Malema slammed over Zuma attack

19 june 2014 - 11:50:09
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Economic Freedom Fighters' leader Julius Malema, who had a high-profile fall-out with South African [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Tension high as Minister prepares to meet striking miners

15 may 2014 - 11:40:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tension remains high at Rustenburg Marikana Mine in South Africa’s North-West province where Police [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Talks to end 3-month mining strike resume

23 april 2014 - 12:49:23
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Talks between the Chief Executive Officers of South Africa's leading platinum companies and the [...] Full text...

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South Africa: Miners on strike over wage dispute

23 january 2014 - 08:26:42
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Tensions are running high in South Africa’s North West province where tens of thousands [...] Full text...

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SA's powerful union says will not support ANC in 2014

20 december 2013 - 13:04:12
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - In a major blow to South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC), the country's [...] Full text...

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South African conference to "revisit" Marikana tragedy

12 october 2013 - 09:44:28
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Critical issues surrounding mining in South Africa will be discussed and debated at the [...] Full text...

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Amnesty International seeks justice over Marikana massacre

16 august 2013 - 12:41:43
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - As South Africa Friday marks the first anniversary of the Marikana massacre in which 44 [...] Full text...

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Marikana massacre marked in SA

16 august 2013 - 10:19:13
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa was Friday marking the first anniversary of the Marikana massacre in which [...] Full text...

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AI says justice elusive for victims of Marikana mine workers' shooting

15 august 2013 - 17:10:15
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Justice for victims of the police shooting at South Africa's Lonmin Marikana mine that resulted in [...] Full text...

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Major African mining conference kicks off in SA

04 february 2013 - 10:43:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s battered multi-billion-dollar mining industry will be in the global eye with the [...] Full text...

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Labour unrest continues in SA

10 january 2013 - 11:01:36
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Striking and rioting workers have served notice that South Africa is likely to see [...] Full text...

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‘Apartheid legacy to blame for mine violence’

05 december 2012 - 08:59:52
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The outgoing Chief Executive Officer of mining giant Anglo American Tuesday said the violence [...] Full text...

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SA opposition move to axe Zuma

09 november 2012 - 10:01:17
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - For the first time since the advent of democracy in South Africa, eight opposition [...] Full text...

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No respite in SA mining sector crisis

24 october 2012 - 08:57:29
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The crisis in South Africa’s mining sector shows no signs of abating, weeks after [...] Full text...

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SA govt rejects opposition's call for debate on economy

16 october 2012 - 11:25:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has turned down a request by the leader of [...] Full text...

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SA mine workers threaten murder charges over colleague's death

08 october 2012 - 11:37:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Representatives of 12,000 Anglo American Platinum workers who were fired this weekend Monday confirmed [...] Full text...

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SA mining firm makes moves to curtail strike

03 october 2012 - 12:41:43
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - One of South Africa’s mining giants is seeking an eviction order to remove striking [...] Full text...

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Inquiry into SA mine massacre begins

01 october 2012 - 10:04:05
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The judicial inquiry into the shooting at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana began [...] Full text...

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Rights body demands effective probe of SA mine deaths

28 september 2012 - 08:57:05
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The powers and ability of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the deaths of 44 [...] Full text...

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SA mine workers' strike: Army to help restore order

17 september 2012 - 11:57:46
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa is to draft the military to join the police in restoring order [...] Full text...

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Renowned author Ben Okri laments SA's mining tragedy

13 september 2012 - 13:00:41
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Renowned Nigerian author Ben Okri on Wednesday night delivered a stirring and poignant speech [...] Full text...

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SA mine workers' strike: Malema inflames passion

04 september 2012 - 11:35:05
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - Firebrand former African National Congress (ANC) Youth League leader Julius Malema has verbally attacked [...] Full text...

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Mauritian political party saddened by murder of mine workers in South Africa

22 august 2012 - 13:49:42
Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - A Mauritian political party, Lalit (meaning Struggle), has said that it noted with horror, the murder [...] Full text...

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Families of slain miners to press legal charges against SA police

21 august 2012 - 12:51:07
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The families of the 34 miners who were gunned down when they failed to [...] Full text...

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Judge should oversee probe into SA mine protest deaths, insists AI

18 august 2012 - 19:38:18
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A judge must oversee any investigation into the death of 34 people after South African police [...] Full text...

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