Pictures secretly taken in the Marikana platinum mines of the underground work at a depth of approx. 1,000 meters. The only lighting in the shafts is the workers’ headlights.
From Marikana to Ludwigshafen: Along the platinum supply chain
Pictures secretly taken in the Marikana platinum mines of the underground work at a depth of approx. 1,000 meters. The only lighting in the shafts is the workers’ headlights.
Day and night: View from the informal settlement Nkaneng looking onto Lonmin’s neighbouring Base Metal refinery. In the foreground on the left: one of the few measures taken after the Marikana massacre. In 2016 Lonmin ordered a large quantity of toilet houses, which can be placed on top of a hole in the floor.
Water is supplied to the informal settlements around Marikana through water tanks or individual, collectively used taps. This water point close to Nkaneng was installed in 2016. Women do the reproductive labour. In the background is one of the numerous ventilation systems for underground shafts.
Tree in Marikana. In the background: a transformer station and power lines that supply Lonmin’s premises with electricity. Most of the inhabitants of the surrounding settlements, the Lonmin workers, have no electricity connection.
Counter motion of the ethical shareholder association Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre Deutschlands not to grant discharge of liability to the Executive Board of the chemical group BASF for the financial year 2014, as it did not fulfil its responsibility in the supply chain in the case of Lonmin. Submitted on 15 April 2015 to BASF’s shareholders’ meeting on 30 April 2015 in Mannheim.
Bishop Jo Seoka, representative of Marikana’s miners, speaks at the BASF shareholder meeting in Mannheim on 30 April 2015. To his left is Markus Dufner, Managing Director of the Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionärinnen und Aktionäre Deutschlands.
