South Africa Mine Shooting: Police Fire At Striking Mine Workers
JOHANNESBURG -- South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking workers at a platinum mine, leaving an unknown number of people injured and possibly dead. Motionless bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood.
Police moved in on striking workers who gathered near the Lonmin PLC mine Thursday afternoon after urging them to give up their weapons and go home to their hostels and shacks. Some did leave, though others carrying weapons began war chants and soon started marching toward the township near the mine, said Molaole Montsho, a journalist with the South African Press Association who was at the scene.
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured when police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcrop near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition. (AP Photo)
Striking miners chant slogans as they hold crudely made weapons and machetes at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.
Striking mineworkers make their way to a meeting on a giant boulder at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012.
The Jewish Oppenheimer and Debeers families become multi billionaire by exploiting the gold,diamond and platinum of South Africa .The British royal shareholder of Anglo American and Debeers mining company also got wealthy exploiting South African minerals .The wealthy families dont want to share the mineral wealth with the miner by paying them a fair salary .The killing of the strking miners by the police is wrong .The governement of South Africa should investigate .
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
The South African government will not investigate because the ANC sold out to De Beers during Mandela's tenure as President.
The ANC government is just a set of talk-talk corrupt politicians who have agreed to just accept the crumbs that fall off De Beers table.
Way back, the solution was to nationalise the mines. But they did not--afraid of offending the white economic power structure.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
Saw this on CNN yesterday.....live!!!!. I was shocked they showed it. Was even more shocked the callousness of the reporters. Although the tv anchor was visibly disturbed. Black people are treated like animals in their own country. Things haven't changed much. But it looks like there were many whites officers, one gave the order to fire. Also, some black officers lowered their weapon and did not fire......to their credit.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
Their mistake was to charge the officers armed with spear chucks and machetes. How could the cops know what was their intention behind that. It was a bad outcome unfortunately but they should not have charged the cops.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
oh and by the way, a lot of the officers were Black and they also took part in the shooting. You cannot paint this racially. But then again, we are dealing with Afro-loons. Never mind!
Posted by Ausar Amen8 (Member # 20085) on :
quote:Originally posted by Narmerthoth: South Africa Mine Shooting: Police Fire At Striking Mine Workers
JOHANNESBURG -- South African police opened fire Thursday on a crowd of striking workers at a platinum mine, leaving an unknown number of people injured and possibly dead. Motionless bodies lay on the ground in pools of blood.
Police moved in on striking workers who gathered near the Lonmin PLC mine Thursday afternoon after urging them to give up their weapons and go home to their hostels and shacks. Some did leave, though others carrying weapons began war chants and soon started marching toward the township near the mine, said Molaole Montsho, a journalist with the South African Press Association who was at the scene.
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured when police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcrop near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition. (AP Photo)
Striking miners chant slogans as they hold crudely made weapons and machetes at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.
Striking mineworkers make their way to a meeting on a giant boulder at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012.
In South Africa the police freely kill people because there are no consequences fo them. Former police chief, Bheki Cele, instructed the police to shoot if they feel that someone armed will attack. Police brutality has since increased. Andries Tatane was murdered at his house in similar fashion and yes the ANC and the overhyped Nelson Mandela are sell outs. Whites love him 'cause he protects their interests
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
Steve Biko, Chris Hani, and all others who were killed by the Apartheid henchmen sacrificed their lives for the failed revolution.
But as usual there is always a weak-kneed sell-out waiting in wings to ensure that those who died, died in vain.
Madiba is the typical African sell-out. Over-respectful to the point of being almost terrified by whites.
The mines--gold, diamond, platinum, etc.--could easily have been nationalised and the land nationalised too. But Mandela soon after he assumed the presidency made it clear that "privatisation was a fundamental policy of the ANC". He must have been coached to think this way because he was arrested and jailed for having communist links.
The man treated his wife worse than he treated the Apartheid regime. Just a regular sell-out artist.
Those miners were on the right track. The platinum mining company was making huge profits.
As I said, the ANC government will just do a routine check and close the case. No body will be punished for giving the orders to shoot the miners.
Another instance of blacks killing blacks to protect white interests.
Posted by Ausar Amen8 (Member # 20085) on :
I have to agree with you Lamin. A few months ago we had someone speaking the thoughts of ordinary South Afrikans as ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema. He was pushing for nationalisation of mines and other minerals (after a visit to Zimbabwe) and the youth mostly supported his views, from university students to jobless youth in street corners! They, the sell out ANC kicked him out of 'power' and as a result he can't be our voice anymore. The nationalisation issue has disappeared from current affairs. Sad really because South Afrikans will again vote ANC just because Zuma tells them jesus won't bless them LOL or that the ancestors will not pass on their prayers.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
Point is. . .who gave he order. I saw the live video. Some black police officers lowered their weapon and did not fire.
But I was really suprised that white commanders are still in charge in SA.
Is it the same in Haiti?
quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: oh and by the way, a lot of the officers were Black and they also took part in the shooting. You cannot paint this racially. But then again, we are dealing with Afro-loons. Never mind!
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
It seems the ANC are in the process of deploying South African Troops around the mine to deter the protesters from impacting the plant's recovery and operation.
South Africa Sends Army to End Rioting at Largest Platinum Mine
South Africa Sends Army to End Rioting at Largest Platinum Mine By Carli Cooke - Feb 16, 2012 11:40 AM ET
South Africa sent troops to end rioting at the world’s largest platinum mine after owner Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. (IMP) asked for government help to stop violence stemming from an illegal strike that has halted output.
Impala has rehired 6,000 workers, allowing operations to “tentatively restart” in certain areas, Brown said. “I’d say another three to four weeks would probably give us an indication of trying to get everyone back to work and getting people up and running,” he said.
The AMCU didn’t cause the violence, General Secretary Jeff Mphahlele said in an interview today. While AMCU didn’t call the strike, it has recruited a “large percentage” of Impala workers in Rustenburg, he said. “People are sick and tired of NUM,” he said.
Of course it is, although to have a Negro front man is always fashionable.
"On Aug. 18, 1920, the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), campaigning in Butte, Mont., said that it would be fine for the United States to join the League of Nations because our nation would have multiple votes.
He assured listeners that ‘the votes of Cuba, Haiti, San Domingo, Panama, Nicaragua and of the other Central American states’ would not be cast ‘differently from the vote of the United States,’ which is ‘the big brother of these little republics.’ “Then, (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) referring to his days as assistant secretary of the Navy, the vice presidential candidate said: ‘You know I have had something to do with running a couple of little republics. The facts are that I wrote Haiti’s constitution myself and, if I do say so, I think it a pretty good constitution.’ He added: ‘Why, I have been running Haiti or San Domingo for the past seven years.’”
Maybe Mr. Will intended to make the point that the US empire's control of the Haiti and other little republics' vote at the UN is not new.
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: But I was really suprised that white commanders are still in charge in SA.
Is it the same in Haiti?
The Negroes stupidity is never ending.
The Negroes desire to please his master is never ending.
Heard of an article yesterday on the international link:
Seems these American Black kids went to a birthday party, and argument broke out, and one of them opened up with an Oozie, fired over a hundred rounds. Didn't get the causalities.
Question: Who but a mindless nigger, just one step above a mindless wild animal, goes to a birthday party with an oozie?
Yet those fools constantly agitate about the police incarcerating and killing them. Fools, when the police kill them, THEY ARE HELPING YOU!
But of course, once again it's the Negroes lack of intelligence. Police killing demonstrators is a criminal event.
Police killing mindless murderous criminals in your community is a kindness.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
I agree; "Police killing demonstrators is a criminal event. "
But police killing young black men(in the hood) is not the solution.. . .Mike. . .or they killing each other with Uzis.
Not all of us were/are fortunate to have guidance. These kids are living in different times and under hopeless circumstances. I agree my first impulse is pure disgust when I look at some of them in the streets. I know where the Haitian is coming from but. . ..
Walking the streets of Philly you can see that cycle in play.
I heard of a Jamaican family both professionals(we both belong to same youth organization) - (son born and schooled in the US) was forced to move further out in the burbs. Why? Because his son was being threatened/forced to join a gang. Fortunately his son came to him.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
He said the Teachings of the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and the presence of the men of the Nation of Islam could forestall some of the senseless violence, and the youth have to be given gainful employment.
“We have to put our young people to work and give them hope that there is a better life for us, not sitting around waiting for President Obama or others to create enough jobs for us. We have to get together and create jobs for ourselves and our people and this we hope to share with all of our people because the battle is in our hands now, and we should take up the challenge to create jobs, employment and give our people intelligent discourse that they may come alive as human beings rather than the way we are acting at present,” the Minister said.
He also chided some spiritual leaders for their “bourgeois attitude” staying inside of their houses of worship while death, havoc, and mayhem fills the streets. The young people don’t feel a connection with the religious leaders, nor do they feel the presence of love, he said.
“These young people are our children. They are our flesh and our blood, so we don’t go in the streets like some army to ‘take back our streets’ we didn’t own the streets in the first place. But if we get our young people together and pool our resources, we could own every street where we live,” said the Minister. “We’re coming in the streets to show our young people the love that they are missing.”
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
I honestly believe there is hope for you, Mikey. The frustration will force you to wise up soon enough, once you tire of making excuses for Negro behavior. The day is on the horizon Mikey, I promise! you will point the finger of blame at the right source.
quote:Originally posted by Mike111:
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: But I was really suprised that white commanders are still in charge in SA.
Is it the same in Haiti?
The Negroes stupidity is never ending.
The Negroes desire to please his master is never ending.
Heard of an article yesterday on the international link:
Seems these American Black kids went to a birthday party, and argument broke out, and one of them opened up with an Oozie, fired over a hundred rounds. Didn't get the causalities.
Question: Who but a mindless nigger, just one step above a mindless wild animal, goes to a birthday party with an oozie?
Yet those fools constantly agitate about the police incarcerating and killing them. Fools, when the police kill them, THEY ARE HELPING YOU!
But of course, once again it's the Negroes lack of intelligence. Police killing demonstrators is a criminal event.
Police killing mindless murderous criminals in your community is a kindness.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
Majority of the police were Black. The shooting was a split second decision made by the black officers. There was no order, xyyman. Interestingly, it was a White officer who screamed to cease fire. BTW, those same demonstrators hacked two officers to death a week ago.
You are still trying to find your scapegoat. I really shake my head at you, xyyman. Very sad.
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: Point is. . .who gave he order. I saw the live video. Some black police officers lowered their weapon and did not fire.
But I was really suprised that white commanders are still in charge in SA.
Is it the same in Haiti?
quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: oh and by the way, a lot of the officers were Black and they also took part in the shooting. You cannot paint this racially. But then again, we are dealing with Afro-loons. Never mind!
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
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Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
prove it! what I saw was a knew jerk reaction by a shooter and everyone else followed suit. I did not hear anyone scream to start firing. Judge it yourself, here is a footage:
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: Bs. It is the white commander who gave the order to fire.....and. cease fire.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
Why did you delete your statement? I guess you found out you were wrong. You should reason with your intellect and not your emotion. Far too many Blacks are emotionally driven, to their own harm.
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: Deleted
Posted by Mike111 (Member # 9361) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: I honestly believe there is hope for you, Mikey. The frustration will force you to wise up soon enough, once you tire of making excuses for Negro behavior.
That's not Negro behavior, Negroes are your (Albinos) best friend, they're harmless - just stupid.
Nope, mindless violence like that is strictly the domain of Albinos and Mindless Niggers.
For Blacks to prosper, Black communities must learn to neutralize the effects of Negroes, and kill or incarcerate the sub-human niggers.
One in need of a job does not turn to mindless, indiscriminate, violence and murder. These are defective creatures: perhaps the parents were drug abusers or some such thing. Maybe they ate too much fast food, who knows?
But what we do know is that they are killers, the sooner we react to that reality, the sooner the problem will be solved.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
lmao! I still have faith in you Mike. I honestly believe the day will come when you will stop making excuses for destructive Negro behavior, and begin to acknowledge the root of the problem. We all know what that is, right Mike? It starts with a G, ends with an E and has E-N in between ;-)
quote:Originally posted by Mike111:
quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies: I honestly believe there is hope for you, Mikey. The frustration will force you to wise up soon enough, once you tire of making excuses for Negro behavior.
That's not Negro behavior, Negroes are your (Albinos) best friend, they're harmless - just stupid.
Nope, mindless violence like that is strictly the domain of Albinos and Mindless Niggers.
For Blacks to prosper, Black communities must learn to neutralize the effects of Negroes, and kill or incarcerate the sub-human niggers.
One in need of a job does not turn to mindless, indiscriminate, violence and murder. These are defective creatures: perhaps the parents were drug abusers or some such thing. Maybe they ate too much fast food, who knows?
But what we do know is that they are killers, the sooner we react to that reality, the sooner the problem will be solved.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
I am always in full control of my emotions brother. I deleted the post because I had no proof it was a white commander gave the order to starting firing. Just as I had no prrof that it was a white person that said cease fire. My guess it the same person. Both sounded white.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
Mike,
Calm down. You don't have all the facts. You saw video clip and you are emoting.
Guns are very easy to obtain is SA but the striking miners just had home made spears and some pangas. Why? For protection.
If they wanted a confrontation with the Police they would have had guns.
You don't know how the police were instructed on all this.
As I wrote before, the miners were asking for a pay raise. So I am puzzled as what happened during the negotiations with white bosses of the platinum mine.
Re the UZI kid: Hey that's white behaviour 100%. Get a power gun and just mow down 20 because the company let you go.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
there is no footage of anyone saying "fire your weapons" or anything to that effect, unless you can produce evidence which suggests otherwise. In the meanwhile, I am left no alternative but to conclude that you made it up, hence, you are driven by emotion.
I will retract the statement when you produce a footage of a commander ordering the shooting.
quote:Originally posted by xyyman: I am always in full control of my emotions brother. I deleted the post because I had no proof it was a white commander gave the order to starting firing. Just as I had no prrof that it was a white person that said cease fire. My guess it the same person. Both sounded white.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
I swear you are fucking delusional. Did you not fucking see the miners charge the cops? Holy fucking Jezuz!!!!, dude.
quote:Originally posted by lamin: Mike,
Calm down. You don't have all the facts. You saw video clip and you are emoting.
Guns are very easy to obtain is SA but the striking miners just had home made spears and some pangas. Why? For protection.
If they wanted a confrontation with the Police they would have had guns.
You don't know how the police were instructed on all this.
As I wrote before, the miners were asking for a pay raise. So I am puzzled as what happened during the negotiations with white bosses of the platinum mine.
Re the UZI kid: Hey that's white behaviour 100%. Get a power gun and just mow down 20 because the company let you go.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
What we see here are Negroes who have made a choice that is the wrong choice for them to live.
South Africa made the same wrong choice that many young Negroes on this site and attending many Albino Schools are doomed to repeat. Platinum prices have risen over 40% in the last 5 years to the present ~$1,500/ounce. Quite often Platinum production is already allocated even before it is mined. With production halted at this SA plant, expect prices to rise over the next 2-3 weeks.
School can teach you lessons, but it cannot teach you how to critically think. The mines in South Africa are still very much owned by Zionists Jews, starting with the famous, Anglo American Mining operation.
The Albino educated Negroes in the ANC made a terrible compromise which lead up to this explosion and once this incident boils over, it is doomed to repeat again. These so-called educated Negroes should have nationalized everything in SA following Apartheid. But what happened is the Jews in Charge cut the head ANC chumps a few crumbs off the table to keep things the way they were, and since these crumbs are tied to Wall Street, the ANC clowns were hooked to keep the Capitalistic structure in place to reap their small profits.
Here's the deal for the unthinking;
Communism and Capitalism are not new, and are certainly not creations of Albinos. Both are socioeconomic ideologies, either of which present viable options of distributing resources to the masses. Either paradigm is as good as the other. The only real question for both are which offers the greater longevity before collapsing from the weight of corruption and human greed. Neither of these ideologies currently exist in the Albino framework of government Russia has never been a true communist state, while America has never seen a true democracy.
The question is; How can Africa ever hope for freedom when they insist on embracing Albino social systems where the deck is always stacked in favour of the house? South Africa had they chance, screwed it up and made the predictable flawed choice of dancing with the devil to his tune. When the music stops and Africans find themselves without a chair to sit, who is to blame. These Albino college educated Negro BISCUITS have failed their own once again.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
It is possible that the miners confronted the very poorly trained police believing--through their gri gris--that their home made weapons could be a match for the police armed with lethal firepower.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
The solution is for the mines to be nationalised with the following conditions:
1)Worker co-operative banks should be set up for the mine workers who then deposit their properly negotiated wages into such banks.
2)Workers are made automatic shareholders of the mines; in this instance Lonmin. Recall the big British company--a long time player in Africa.
3)A portion of the proceeds from the mines are set aside for health care, education, and owned houses--not cheap shacks--for the workers.
4) The board of directors of the mines should include at least 50% miners. Directorship meetings should be open and public.
5)Pensions at 75% of salary should be aside for the miners.
6)Etc. In other words the people who work the mines should own them. Cut out the lazy, greedy, settler types--the spiritual descendants of arch Randlord and imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, Nathan Rothschild, etc.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
The "big British company" referred to above is LONRHO-a long time player in Africa.
Posted by xyyman (Member # 13597) on :
Do you beleive that bull shyte story. That they would counfront the police wih sticks and stones.
what you have here is simple. A blatant disregdard for black life. Whether in the streets of LA or the SAian townships and ghettos of Brazil.
quote:Originally posted by lamin: It is possible that the miners confronted the very poorly trained police believing--through their gri gris--that their home made weapons could be a match for the police armed with lethal firepower.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
I would say that Africans are as stupid as bricks, but the same thing happens here in the US to ignorant Negroes so I'm positive this poor decision making can be traced to institutionalized stupidity.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
quote:Do you beleive that bull shyte story. That they would counfront the police wih sticks and stones.
what you have here is simple. A blatant disregdard for black life. Whether in the streets of LA or the SAian townships and ghettos of Brazil.
What you have are mistakes on both sides. The SA Police were just the same old tactics of Apartheid. Crowds were controlled by just shooting directly at them.
It happens all the time from Greece to Palestine to Korea to Egypt to London to Paris. Crowds always confront the Police with stones, Molotov cocktails, and slingshots. The Police generally respond with their shields to protect their bodies from rocks, then they fire tear gas, rubber bullets, concussion bombs, and water cannon. Crowds are usually defeated and dispersed with such .
In this instance, a Police force using Apartheid tactics resulted in 34 dead and many wounded.
Apparently rather than deal with the demands of the miners and their representatives the bosses at Lonmin called in the Police to teach the miners a lesson. The Police came in armed and that's what you get.
Posted by lamin (Member # 5777) on :
So what was the mistake on the side of the miners? They erroneously thought that the Police would not use Apartheid crowd control tactics on them. Apartheid "crowd control tactics" are merely to shoot demonstrators to death.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
That particular mine yields approx. 1,000,000 ounces of platinum/annually. At $1600/Oz, that's a LOT of cash. The miners who go down into the mine, break rock and find the metal earn roughly $680/month.
The ANC and their passive union UMC should be rounded up and put into the mine as forced labour.
Posted by Crush Black Lies (Member # 20324) on :
why do i even waste time with a delusional person such as yourself. You are blind to the weapons with which the miners were armed, and how they charged the cops. smdh.
quote:Originally posted by lamin:
quote:Do you beleive that bull shyte story. That they would counfront the police wih sticks and stones.
what you have here is simple. A blatant disregdard for black life. Whether in the streets of LA or the SAian townships and ghettos of Brazil.
What you have are mistakes on both sides. The SA Police were just the same old tactics of Apartheid. Crowds were controlled by just shooting directly at them.
It happens all the time from Greece to Palestine to Korea to Egypt to London to Paris. Crowds always confront the Police with stones, Molotov cocktails, and slingshots. The Police generally respond with their shields to protect their bodies from rocks, then they fire tear gas, rubber bullets, concussion bombs, and water cannon. Crowds are usually defeated and dispersed with such .
In this instance, a Police force using Apartheid tactics resulted in 34 dead and many wounded.
Apparently rather than deal with the demands of the miners and their representatives the bosses at Lonmin called in the Police to teach the miners a lesson. The Police came in armed and that's what you get.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crush Black Lies:
Save your breath. Everyone knows that Albinos lie. You are an Albino. Nuff said.
Posted by Doug M (Member # 7650) on :
quote: The Company was incorporated in the United Kingdom on 13 May 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company Limited.
Businessman Tiny Rowland was recruited as chief executive in 1962. For many years during the second half of the twentieth century it was frequently in the news, not only due to the politically-sensitive part of the world in which it had mining businesses, but also – as it strove to become a conglomerate not wholly dependent on these businesses – in a number of takeover battles, most notably for the Harrods of Knightsbridge department store.
In 1968, Lonrho acquired Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, a gold mining business in Ghana. The former Conservative minister Duncan Sandys, a director of Ashanti, became Lonrho's chairman in 1972.
During the 80s, Lonrho entered the British newspaper market, buying the Sunday newspaper The Observer in 1981 and the newly launched daily Today in 1986. Today was sold to News International the following year, while the Guardian Media Group bought the Observer in 1993.
Sir Angus Ogilvy, married to a member of the British royal family (Princess Alexandra), was a Lonrho director and this increased media interest in the company's affairs. Ogilvy's career ended when Lonrho was involved in a sanctions-busting scandal concerning trade with Rhodesia. Prime Minister, Edward Heath, criticised the company, describing it in the House of Commons in 1973 as "an unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism."
Tiny Rowland was finally ejected from Lonrho in October 1993 after a boardroom tussle with director Dieter Bock.
Two months before Rowland's death (on 26 July 1998) the assets of Lonrho were demerged. Two publicly listed companies, Lonrho plc and Lonrho Africa plc were created – the former retaining all the non-African businesses and mining assets. In 1999 Lonrho plc was renamed as Lonmin plc and a new era as a focused mining company began. Since then it has divested itself of all non-core assets.
In late 2008 CEO Brad Mills announced his intention to resign from his position, and Lonmin indicated that former chief strategic officer responsible for the company’s business development, Ian Farmer, would replace him. This could be viewed as a positive development, as Farmer has more experience in the platinum industry. Mills leaves behind a "significant contribution in developing the company over the past four years" according to chairperson, Sir John Craven, as his introduction of mechanized mining has increased safety for the miners, as well as increasing productivity.
quote: Rowland is a fascinating subject. Born Roland Walter Fuhrhop in a British detention camp in India during the First World War to a German father and Anglo-Dutch mother, he grew up with split allegiances. His early years were spent in both Britain and Germany. He joined the Hitler Youth and attended a British public school. His father's business was confiscated by the British, and the wealth that Rowland amassed making fridges after the war was taken by the Inland Revenue. Yet after he emigrated to Rhodesia and rebuilt his fortune, Rowland chose to return to the UK in the early Sixties and fight his battles with the British establishment on its home ground.
Bower's book delves deeply into Rowland's life and career to reveal a buccaneering, charming entrepreneur who lives by his wits and is not averse to making payments to the odd African politician. It also shows him as an ogre and bully whose attempts to import his colonial way of doing business to Britain brought him close to catastrophe and into open war with the establishment. But while all of this is impressively researched, little is new. After all, Lonrho was called the 'unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism' by Edward Heath when he was prime minister; Rowland only narrowly survived the rebellion of the 'straight eight' directors in 1973; and the man and his company have spent the past seven years trying to prosecute a former secretary of state for trade and industry regarding the House of Fraser affair. Many of the revelations about Rowland's nefarious business practices are not new, as Richard Hall's excellent My Life with Tiny (Faber & Faber, 1987) provides much of same flavour. The way Lonrho's share price has shrugged off the book's publication shows how little impact it has had.
quote: The core of the company's success remained in Africa. Rowland often spent three weeks in every month there, criss-crossing the continent by private jet. His methods were both robust - he employed a private army to protect plantations in Mozambique - and politically acute. He courted heads of state and, when he saw advantage, rebel leaders. Presidents Kaunda, Banda and later Mugabe were claimed as friends. Unita, in Angola, received his backing, and Oliver Tambo of the ANC had the use of Rowland's aircraft.
Rowland relished backroom influence in high politics, and enjoyed close contacts with the British and American intelligence services. His access to Anwar Sadat is thought to have helped to open the way to the Camp David agreement in 1978. He was rumoured to have had a hand in Lebanese hostage negotiations, and even in Falklands peace manoeuvres.
quote: Mr Rowland was not just financially astute - he was also extremely personable - and used his charms to make lasting friendships with key figures in Africa.
According to Donald Trelford, who edited the Observer newspaper when Mr Rowland owned it, he had a vision of Africa and its potential that was like that of the 19th century British magnate Cecil Rhodes.
He is also said to be one the first businessmen to befriend black African politicians and condemn colonial rule.
The tributes that flowed in from African leaders are a testimony to how highly he was valued.
"He made an enormous contribution, not only to South Africa, but to the whole of Africa," said South Africa's President Nelson Mandela.
"We will remember him as a long-standing friend in the struggle against apartheid."
The former president of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, said, "We worked together to empower Africans ... He is a great loss to us."
Key point, he was a progeny of Cecil Rhodes, taking the wealth stolen from Africa and using it to expand the global financial and economic empire created by theft and murder, while also paying off African leaders like a mob boss to keep them in line.
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
Anglo-Dutch is code for Jew.
Posted by malibudusul (Member # 19346) on :
"The free masons are operating a massive crime syndicate in South Africa. This syndicate involves the major banks, the police and the judicial services. They operate through the Xosa Mafia."
This South African conspiracy theorist in the yotube video freemason and Soxa mafia in South Africa is very smart .He say a community of 300 freemasons rule the earth . We need to create our own black secret society HQ in Africa .We need to create our own black Gnostic Vatican HQ in Africa .We need to create our own black Chase bank,Citybank, Goldman Sach HQ in Africa .We need to create our black CNN,BBC,AJjazeera HQ in Africa. As pale people conspire againt us we need to conspire against them .Thats how power work in the world .
Posted by IronLion (Member # 16412) on :
^Malibudusul wants to form a not so secret society for world control and sexual enslavement of white girls...
Perhaps you should send him a secret e-mail...
Posted by Narmerthoth (Member # 20259) on :
^ What you have detailed is doomed to fail. You could never hope to succeed by imitating Albino initiatives, especially based upon a system designed to enrich a few while enslaving the majority such as Capitalism.
What you need to to brainstorm something radically new as an alternative reality/Lifestyle to what Albinos have packaged.
Police surround the bodies of striking miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. An unknown number of people have been killed and injured when police moved in on workers who gathered on a rocky outcrop near the Lonmin late afternoon, firing unknown ammunition. (AP Photo)
Striking miners chant slogans as they hold crudely made weapons and machetes at the Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012.