Regarding
Lonmin’s operations some of the key problems highlighted by the
report include a high level of fatalities, very poor living
conditions for workers, community demands for employment
opportunities and the impacts of mining on commercial farming in the
area. Almost a third of Lonmin?s workforce is contracted labour, and
community demands for employment have lead to protests and unrest.
The company was also in a union dispute, after which Lonmin dismissed
9 000 workers at the Marikana operations.
Commercial
farming in the Marikana area has been negatively impacted upon by the
mining activities here. As the mines buy more land, the farms that
remain become isolated, and suffer under the environmental impacts of
mining on the quality of the water sources in the area.
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