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Article

4 Nov 2008

Author:
Anglo Platinum

Anglo Platinum’s Comments on the SAHRC’s mining related observations and recommendations

Underpinning this report are two very important arguments about human rights and corporate accountability...First, the SAHRC urges companies to ‘move beyond legal compliance and push for the development of processes and institutional structures which actually identify and manage the multitude of risks associated with resettlement’. Implicit in this statement...is that Anglo Platinum is already legally compliant with the regulations and statutes that govern how mining companies...must operate...If we are legally compliant on the one hand, then how can we be accused of human rights violations on the other? ‘Beyond legal compliance’ suggests that this report is not talking about human rights violations by Anglo Platinum – as the original complaint alleged –but pushing the company to do more than what the law requires...[T]his report does not accuse Anglo Platinum of human rights violations; it only says that there is potential for social impacts to grow into human rights violations if risks are not mitigated. We fundamentally agree with that approach.

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