"Mineworkers still living in squalor four years after Marikana massacre", 15 Aug 2016

Four years after South African police shot dead 34 striking Marikana miners driven to fury by poor wages and living conditions, Lonmin has failed to provide the homes it promised for several thousand workers, says Amnesty International in a report published on Monday...Squalid housing settlements without sewer systems or other basic services are a problem for mine workers across South Africa, in an economy that was built on the mining industry and its black, often migrant, labour...Lonmin is in breach of its legal agreement with the South African government to improve housing at the mine, says the Amnesty report which asks why the government hasn't enforced the deal or revoked Lonmin's mining license. "The challenges are huge," a Lonmin spokesperson, Sue Vey, said in an email to The Associated Press. "This is not an undertaking that any mining company can do successfully on its own."