http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=602&catID=6

Platinum Protests in the Limpopo

Monday June 23rd 2008

Local graves, as yet untouched, lie near the boundary of the Anglo Platinum site.

The platinum miners have cut off services to those communities that refuse to be relocated. They are using the police as muscle to throw people off their ancestral land so that they can mine there. To me it is a mess. The destruction taking place on the land is simply unsustainable.

They say that they have relocated the remains of our ancestors, but they leave us to wonder where the bones have been reburied. Where the exhumations took place, where the graves were, there are now bones and skulls. Right now, as I'm speaking, they are still there. This is really a criminal insult to our ancestors.