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News24 reports that according to Sue Vey, Lonmin spokesperson, miners at the platinum producer’s mine in Marikana do not want houses; they want to live in informal settlements.
She was responding to a damning report by Amnesty International detailing how Lonmin was still failing to provide adequate housing for its workforce. The report indicated that many of the company’s 20 000 workers were still living in squalor despite the company's legally binding commitments to build more houses. Vey however said part of the reason the company had not built adequate housing was because "miners chose to live in informal settlements". She explained that the mine had provided hostels for some miners and some employees were given a living out allowance. They “have a choice to live in a converted hostel or rent a room." Vey also cited the mine’s financial difficulties and the economic downturn as some of the reasons it was not able to fulfil its housing promises.
- Read this report by Lizeka Tandwa in full at News24
- Read too, Lonmin working hard to improve living conditions, says CEO Magara, at Mining Weekly
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