You are cordially invited to a seminar titled "The Bafokeng, the Bophuthatswana Government & Impala Platinum Mines: The Struggle over mineral royalties, 1965 – 1999".
Presenter: Prof Bernard Mbenga
The Bafokeng are a Setswana-speaking community located near present-day Rustenburg. The paper focuses on their protracted legal battle with Impala Platinum in the 1980s and ’90s to improve their royalties. It also analyses the inter-connection of this struggle in the 1980s with the political consequences of Bafokeng incorporation into the apartheid ‘homeland’ of Bophuthatswana under Lucas Manyane Mangope. The injustices of the Mangope era endured by the Bafokeng are explained. Subsequent Bafokeng court action against the powerful mining conglomerates made legal history. The final legal outcome in 1999, very favourable to the Bafokeng, changed forever the relationship between mineral owners and the holders of mining rights in South Africa.
Meeting ID: 356 854 412 069 4
Passcode: wW2Un24S
For more information, kindly contact Mrs Anzel Botha.