"Lonmin Threatened by South Africa Over Slow Response to Massacre", 12 Dec 2016

South Africa’s government threatened to remove Lonmin Plc’s mining license for its failure to build houses for its workers quickly enough, four years after employees were killed in a massacre near its Marikana mine...The government will consider taking tougher action to make sure the world’s third-largest platinum miner fulfils its commitments. “A compliant housing plan will be requested from Lonmin, failing which immediate action in the form of suspension or cancellation of the mining right will be taken,” the presidency said...Improving workers’ living conditions was a key recommendation of the Farlam Commission, set up to investigate the deaths of at least 44 people who were killed, mostly by police, during protests near Marikana in 2012. The government is willing to pay compensation to the victims’ families, the presidency said...Lonmin has noted the statement and is working with all levels of government to find “a lasting solution that will facilitate the development of different living conditions,” Abey Kgotle, the company’s executive vice president of human resources, said by phone...