South Africa: Community Wants Mining Deal Exposed

Johannesburg — ALEXANDER BAY -- The Richtersveld community is to press ahead with court action which seeks to bring into the open details of a "secret" deal struck by diamond mining giant De Beers, the department of minerals and energy and state mining group Alexkor.

A public meeting of the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association yesterday received a mandate to go ahead with the urgent interdict following what it said was government and Alexkor's "bad faith" in striking a deal with De Beers.

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