Just and Equitable Compensation for Expropriation of Motlhotlo Customary Lands
JUST AND EQUITABLE COMPENSATION FOR EXPROPRIATION OF MOTLHOTLO CUSTOMARY LANDS ILC’S DATABASE OF GOOD PRACTICES LEARN, SHARE AND BE INSPIRED! Picture: ©ILC/ Country: South Africa Principal Organisation: Nkuzi Platinumbelt ABSTRACT Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), a platinum offer, demanding more just and equitable mining company, targeted the Motlhotlo compensation. As a result of the community’s community’s land for the expansion of mining resistance efforts, Amplats renegotiated the operations in Mokopane, South Africa. However, resettlement deal. They relocated the remaining Amplats did not seek the community’s free, families to better settlement areas with modern prior and informed consent in the mining three-bedroom houses, two communal farms licence application process. Amplats bypassed for crop production and livestock production, their obligation to meaningfully engage with schools and hospitals. Further, Amplats invested the Motlhotlo community by negotiating with in small local businesses supplying the mine the Department of Mineral Resources and with water, and trained locals for more technical traditional leaders only. Some families refused and stable jobs at the mine, thus securing to accept the company’s meagre compensation local livelihoods. ILC COMMITMENTS PROTECTED LAND EQUAL LAND RIGHTS FOR WOMEN RIGHTS DEFENDERS EFFECTIVE ACTIONS AGAINST LAND GRABBING However, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) Development Act28 of 2002 (MPRDA) that grants the COMPETENCIES and mining companies often bypass the consent DMR the power to act as the custodian of mineral provision by excluding the mining-affected communities resources on behalf of all South Africans, the DMR AREAS SKILLS and merely consulting traditional leaders in the erroneously awards licences even when the community application process for mineral rights.
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