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ANA reports that NGO the Bench Marks Foundation on Tuesday warned that tensions in the Marikana community around the Lonmin platinum mine in Rustenburg were again running high over housing.
It said that at least one activist had been killed over a housing dispute in recent days and another was fearing for his life. This comes as Lonmin on Monday said it was reviewing its housing plan in line with the recommendations of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, saying that it was confident that it would could submit a compliant plan to the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR). Lonmin was responding to the Presidency, which said that the platinum miner's revised Social Labour Plan was broad and without clear timelines on building houses. Bench Marks called for the social and labour plans of all mining companies, not just those of Lonmin, to be audited, saying they were all suspect in respect of their compliance.
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