[Bhpbilliton] BHP Protests in S. Africa Lead to 68 Arrests, SAPA Reports

[Tanya Roberts-Davis]

I will ask Brand, Dolo and George at Jubilee....am waiting to hear from them.
in sol,
Tanya
Quoting "Mia Pepper" <bar_barrick at yahoo.com.au>:

> If anyone does have more info... and or a contact for someone in  
> South Africa.... we'd love to do an interview on this for the  
> Radioactive Show.... please e-mail me here at  
> bar_barrick at yahoo.com.au or at ras3cr at yahoo.com.au
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> ta. Mia
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> --- On Sat, 20/2/10, Andy Whitmore <comms at piplinks.org> wrote:
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> Subject: [Bhpbilliton] BHP Protests in S. Africa Lead to 68 Arrests,  
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> BHP Protests in S. Africa Lead to 68 Arrests, SAPA Reports
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> By Mkhululi Mancotywa, Bloomberg
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> 19 February 2010
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> Sixty eight people were arrested and 21 injured in
> protests against BHP Billiton Ltd. yesterday in Ogies, a town in the
> eastern South African province of Mpumalanga, the South Press
> Association said, citing a police spokesman.
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> Among the injured were three police officers who were hit by stones and
> bottles and 18 protesters who were hurt by rubber bullets, the news
> agency said. The protesters were demanding job’s at BHP’s Klipspruit
> coal mine in Ogies.
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> 21 injured, 61 arrested in Ogies protest
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> http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=594&art_id=nw20100218174243252C140008
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> 18 February 2010
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> Twenty-one people were injured and 61 were arrested in Ogies,
> Mpumalanga, on Thursday in protests against BHP Billiton - the second
> violent action targeting a mining company in the past two weeks, police
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> They included three police officials, who were injured on the shoulder,
> mouth and head when stones and bottles were thrown at them, said
> Captain Leonard Hlathi.
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> Hlathi said the police had to fire rubber bullets to disperse crowds
> burning tyres and barricading roads with bottles, dustbins and road
> traffic signs.
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> "Eighteen protesters were bruised from the rubber bullets. We have
> arrested 61 people for public violence," he said, adding that all the
> main roads in the Phola township, in Ogies, were closed.
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> "They [the protesters] want to draw attention from BHP Billiton. They
> are claiming there were several meetings with BHP Billiton and they are
> claiming BHP Billiton is not employing people from Phola township,"
> said Hlathi.
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> BHP Billiton owns the Klipspruit coal mine in Ogies.
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> The mine's spokesman Johnny Dladla said 94 percent of the people
> employed by the BHP Billiton's Klipspruit colliery were from the
> Nkangala district.
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> "Of these, eight percent are from the local Ogies or Phola township,"
> said Dladla.
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> He said BHP Billiton remained open and committed to continue
> discussions with community leaders through the local Community
> Development Forum.
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> Last week, schooling was disrupted and the library set alight in the
> Mpumalanga town of Balfour in protests against the local Burnstone gold
> mine, which residents accused of not investing enough in infrastructure
> development.
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> Co-operative Governance Minister Sicelo Shiceka was visiting the
> Siyathemba township in Balfour on Thursday to check on the situation.
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> ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has been in the news repeatedly
> lately for saying he believed mines should be nationalised to fund free
> education, to the ire of Mining Minister Susan Shabangu, who vowed that
> it would not happen in her lifetime. - Sapa
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