http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/hartley/2009/07/06/anc-calls-for-public-debate-on-nationalisation-full-text/ Politics. News. New media. Old media. Mon, 21 May 2012 10:08:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.timeslive.co.za/hartley/2009/07/06/anc-calls-for-public-debate-on-nationalisation-full-text/comment-page-1/#comment-18705 David van Wyk Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:09:05 +0000 http://blogs.thetimes.co.za/hartley/?p=2168#comment-18705 As South Africans we should welcome this call by the African National Congress. Any person who has been to Luka village in the shadow of Anglo Platinum's Bafokeng operations or Freedom Park in the shadow of Impala Platinum's operation and has seen the squalor and poverty of these communities where thousand of mine workers reside in tin shacks without proper water, sanitation or electricity and compares this with the magnificent profit margins of these corporations must ask why mineworkers get a meagre R3 000 a month, why the majority population of a country with South Africa's mineral wealth suffers such incredible poverty? It is time that we emulate Venezuela and Bolivia. Global capitalism might well threaten disinvestment, however seeing that South Africa has 80% of the world's platinum resources they will be back with their tails between their legs begging to buy the resource. As South Africans we should welcome this call by the African National Congress. Any person who has been to Luka village in the shadow of Anglo Platinum’s Bafokeng operations or Freedom Park in the shadow of Impala Platinum’s operation and has seen the squalor and poverty of these communities where thousand of mine workers reside in tin shacks without proper water, sanitation or electricity and compares this with the magnificent profit margins of these corporations must ask why mineworkers get a meagre R3 000 a month, why the majority population of a country with South Africa’s mineral wealth suffers such incredible poverty? It is time that we emulate Venezuela and Bolivia. Global capitalism might well threaten disinvestment, however seeing that South Africa has 80% of the world’s platinum resources they will be back with their tails between their legs begging to buy the resource.

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