Notorious mining company
Sibanye-Stillwater wants to take over Lonmin
Threat of massive job losses
exacerbates precarious living conditions in Marikana
International Campaign calls on BASF
to agree steps to improve living and working conditions across its supply chain
At BASF’s
Annual General Meeting on May 3 in Mannheim, the South African-European
campaign Plough Back the Fruits will condemn the German chemical company for neglecting
human rights in its business relations with South Africa.
Almost
seven years after the Marikana Massacre, where over a hundred miners were shot
by the police, killing 34, working and living conditions remain unacceptable at
Lonmin, BASF’s most important platinum supplier. Weiterlesen
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Management Board and Supervisory Board,
my name is Khadja Bedati and I speak for the Saharawi Youth and Ethical Shareholders Germany.
I am here to express my concern that Continental continues to
fail to respect the rights of the people of occupied Western Sahara and does
not to seek consent to operate in our country.
On 10 January 2018, the Advocate General of the European
Court of Justice made it clear that Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco, that
international humanitarian law applies to Western Sahara and that the agreement
between the EU and Morocco is invalid because it includes Western Sahara. Weiterlesen
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Re agenda item 3:
Approval to the actions of the members of the Supervisory Board
Ethical Shareholders Germany requests that no
formal approval should be given to the actions of the members of the
Supervisory Board.
Rationale:
The Supervisory Board has performed its task as the controlling body of the Board of Executive Directors only inadequately. BASF’s actions to date are not sufficient to make an effective contribution to achieving the goals of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda 2030, the UN Global Compact and the National Action Plan for Business and Human Rights of the federal German government, to which BASF has committed itself. Weiterlesen
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Event with Bishop Jo Seoka 2 May 2019, 7pm at VHS Heidelberg
In
2012 over 3000 South African miners went on strike in Marikana. The
mining company Lonmin has been refusing to comply with the binding
social plan for years. But the strike was brutally ended by the police
and 34 workers died in a hail of bullets. BASF buys a large part of the
platinum extracted in Marikana to use as catalysts, but rejects
responsibility for the strike and its consequences, although it was
fully aware of the workers’ situation – this was the only way platinum
could be so cheap. Weiterlesen
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Lonmin announces solid financial performance ahead of drawn out takeover while refusing to secure 12,600 mine workers’ jobs
At Lonmin’s annual general meeting on 25 March 2019, while protesters gathered outside, the London-listed company announced profits of US$100 million. It spoke of preserving its assets rather than investing in the company ahead of a takeover bid by the gold mining giant Sibanye-Stillwater.
Lonmin executives urged shareholders to back the bid by the South African corporation, in a meeting that would have been focused on salvaging profit and shares, were it not for an alliance of Marikana solidarity groups present. Weiterlesen
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The campaign aims to support the Marikana people´s fight for justice. The European initiators of the campaign are a network of independent German, Swiss and Austrian NGOs and activists. In 2014/2015 the European initiators started to join forces with partners in South Africa. Since then the campaign has been collaborating with the families of victims of the Marikana massacre, supporters and NGOs and strives to strengthen alliances with mineworker communities in Marikana, activists, researchers, NGOs and progressive unions in South Africa as well as in Europe. Weiterlesen
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South African delegation held Lonmin to account for its role in the Marikana Massacre
In March 2018, an international alliance of non-governmental organisations put pressure on British-South African mining company Lonmin, the world´s third largest platinum producer. Five years after the massacre of British-South African platinum mining company Lonmin has not fulfilled its obligations.
Since Bishop Jo Seoka attended the Lonmin AGM in January 2017 little progress has been made at Marikana, despite promises made by the company. Therefore, Bishop Seoka and two community representatives came to London to present their demands to the Lonmin management.
Before the AGM a picket was co-organised by Marikana Miners Solidarity Campaign and Decolonising Environmentalism. Weiterlesen
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At the Annual General Meeting of the British-South African mining company Lonmin, our alliance of South African and European NGOs protested and called upon the company to provide decent living conditions for its miners. The participants of our delegation from South Africa, civil rights activist Thumeka Magwangqana from the women’s organization Sikhale Sonke (“We cry together”), Bishop Johannes Seoka and attorney Andries Nkome, ask Lonmin to take responsibility.
They demand from Lonmin to pay reparations to all dependents of the deceased mineworkers and the injured and arrested workers who survived the Marikana Massacre on 16 August 2012. Weiterlesen
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