Workers Revolutionary Party
Xolobeni community members marching against the takeover of their land by the Australian mining company Mineral Commodities
âA CHINESE mining company is taking over plots of land in South Africa, paying residents small lump sums to give over mining rights to their land.
SAFTU (The South African Federation of Trade Unions) learns with disgust the dirty tricks of how the mining company, Nkwe Platinum Limited, is attempting to rob the people of Ga-Mamphahlane land.
In conduct reminiscent of criminal syndicates, this corporation has colluded with the parasitic national bourgeoisie to dispossess the community of their land.
In the reports given to the Sunday Times by residents, different sinister methods of dispossession came to light. They did not give the community sufficient information: while others, because of a lack of English comprehension, could not comprehend the contents of the leases they were signing.
25 April 2021 - 00:00 By THANDUXOLO JIKA
Vicky Riba, 51, earns her living picking oranges for farmers near her impoverished village of Ga-Mamphahlane, outside Burgersfort, Limpopo.
Until recently she owned two pieces of land near the village in the mineral-rich Garatouw area, where she planted wheat.
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In 2008, just before the ANC’s Polokwane conference, I wrote an opinion piece in
City Press titled “Vote for Order – Zuma can’t be entrusted with the presidency but Motlanthe can”. This was my attempt to raise concern about the possibility of the then deputy president Jacob Zuma contesting for the presidency without having been pronounced innocent by the courts on criminal charges of corruption, fraud, money laundering and tax evasion. Zuma had previously and quite appropriately been fired by President Thabo Mbeki after a high court found him to have a “generally corrupt relationship with a certain Mr Schabir Shaik”.
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