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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

What you can get away with if your name is Mandela or Zuma


There's what you know, and who you know. Grrr! (Ta to wife Karen for this Tweeted post.)


http://www.fin24.com/Opinion/Columnists/Jan-de-Lange/Stripped-bare-20110621

But while all these fine announcements were being made, large trucks with teams of workers and welding equipment dismantled the enormous steel infrastructure and equipment and carted it away. Now that Aurora is no longer in control and the famished staff is no longer frightened of them, dozens of photos of this kind of "entrepreneurship" are coming to light.

"It looks as if Aurora never had any intention of entering the mining industry. Their business is actually scrap metal," says Gideon du Plessis, deputy head of Solidarity, who realised for the first time in April last year – seven months after Aurora took over control of the mines – that the mines were being stripped.

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