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22 May 2012

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Bloomberg

Impala mine license should be revoked - NUM [So. Africa]

South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers will consider asking the government to revoke Impala Platinum (JSE:IMP) Holdings Ltd.’s license after a worker was shot at its Rustenburg mine in clashes between labor organizations. “If the company is unable to protect people, it is time to take the company’s license away,” Senzeni Zokwana, NUM’s president, said in an interview in Johannesburg today. “You can’t run a mine, employ people, then fail to protect them. We blame the company for what has been happening because they do not have any structure.”...“It is their prerogative,” Johan Theron, group executive for people at Impala, said by phone. “There is no basis for them wanting to take our license away. Right now, we find ourselves in the middle of union rivalry.”