"Media statement by the Bench Marks Foundation: Impala Deaths a Tragedy", 26 Jan 2016

The death of four mine workers at Impala Platinum’s Shaft 14 mine in Rustenburg, South Africa on Friday, 22 January 2016 is a terrible tragedy, says The Bench Marks Foundation...According to the [Foundation], workers health and safety is not improving because of the limp-wristed response by government to issues plaguing the mining industry which, according to the organisation, is informed by the presence of mining industry interests in the government and the ruling party... The Foundation believes that this it is clearly a matter of profits trumping human rights.