TO: THE MARIKANA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY C/O THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION Momentum Building Cnr Prinsloo and Pretorius Streets PRETORIA Service effected by AND TO: PARTIES TO THE MARIKANA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY C/O THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION Service effected by email: phsetati@justice.gov.za Further to the to parties Phase 2” dated 27 July 2014, this submission is made for “letter consideration for purposes of the researcher’s preliminary report into the remaining phase 2 issues scheduled for 11 August 2014: The Evidence Leaders: care of Kameshni Pillay Kally Forrest [mailto:kallyforrest@telkomsa.net Marikana Commission of Inquiry Wonderkop land The relevance of this submission to phase 2 of the inquiry: The evidence leaders requested submissions from parties to inform the preliminary report on phase 2. The Wonderkop Community submits that the status of the farm Wonderkop, immediately adjacent to the surface operations of Lonmin, the Lonmin migrant worker hostels, and the Koppie, is relevant to the inquiry for inter alia the following reasons: The farm Wonderkop is owned by Minister of Native Affairs for the Union of South “the Africa in trust for the Bapo Tribe under Chief FILIUS MOGALE, his successors or assigns”, but the 1926 title deed, the policies and laws do not recognise, formally or in practice, the rights and interests of the Wonderkop Community which is the rightful owner of the land and its minerals, but which community is not recognised as such because the farms falls under the jurisdiction of the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Authority by operation of law. Much of the mining by Lonmin happens under the Wonderkop village and the land where the Wonderkop Community lives. The mine’s surface infrastructure and the Lonmin hostels are on the adjacent property, but the impacts of mining and the Nkanini informal settlement, the large informal settlement northwest of the Lonmin Stadium, largely made up
TO: THE MARIKANA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY C/O THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION Momentum Building Cnr Prinsloo and Pretorius Streets PRETORIA Service effected by AND TO: PARTIES TO THE MARIKANA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY C/O THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMISSION Service effected by email: phsetati@justice.gov.za Further to the “letter to parties Phase 2” dated 27 July 2014, this submission is made for consideration for purposes of the researcher’s preliminary report into the remaining phase 2 issues scheduled for 11 August 2014: The Evidence Leaders: care of Kameshni Pillay Kally Forrest [mailto:kallyforrest@telkomsa.net Marikana Commission of Inquiry Wonderkop land The relevance of this submission to phase 2 of the inquiry: The evidence leaders requested submissions from parties to inform the preliminary report on phase 2. The Wonderkop Community submits that the status of the farm Wonderkop, immediately adjacent to the surface operations of Lonmin, the Lonmin migrant worker hostels, and the Koppie, is relevant to the inquiry for inter alia the following reasons: The farm Wonderkop is owned by “the Minister of Native Affairs for the Union of South Africa in trust for the Bapo Tribe under Chief FILIUS MOGALE, his successors or assigns”, but the 1926 title deed, the policies and laws do not recognise, formally or in practice, the rights and interests of the Wonderkop Community which is the rightful owner of the land and its minerals, but which community is not recognised as such because the farms falls under the jurisdiction of the Bapo Ba Mogale Traditional Authority by operation of law. Much of the mining by Lonmin happens under the Wonderkop village and the land where the Wonderkop Community lives. The mine’s surface infrastructure and the Lonmin hostels are on the adjacent property, but the impacts of mining and the Nkanini informal settlement, the large informal settlement northwest of the Lonmin Stadium, largely made up
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