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02783aam a2200409 i 4500 001 F39376983D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230818010103 008 230327t20232023sa b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0624090566 020 $a 9780624090564 035 $a (OCoLC)1374056178 040 $a OI@ $b eng $e rda $c OI@ $d OI@ $d Z@L $d OCLCF $d NX@ $d NUI $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a HD9536.S62 $b H39 2023 082 04 $a 338.83622 $2 23 082 04 $a 364.13230968 $2 23/eng/20230412 100 1 $a Hawker, Dianne, $e author. 245 10 $a How to steal a gold mine : $b the Aurora story / $c Dianne Hawker. 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a Cape Town, South Africa : $b Tafelberg, an imprint of NB Publishers, $c 2023. 300 $a v, 173 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "In October 2009, Aurora Empowerment Systems a black-owned, politically connected business, made a bid to rescue the liquidated Pamodzi Gold mines. Former president Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma, his lawyer Michael Hulley and Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela, were listed as directors of Aurora. The company looked too good to be true - promising to turn the mines into a new business that would offer stellar benefits to workers, while also expanding into Africa. Soon after the acquisition, the first cracks appeared. More than 5000 workers and suppliers, who depended on their employment to keep themselves and families alive, went unpaid. Over the next few years, and Aurora-managed mines were stripped of assets, as illicit payments went to families of the "connected" while workers starved. Despite a litany of evidence of Aurora's dishonesty, to this day little has been done to bring the perpetrators to book."-- $c Back cover. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Mines in decline -- Aurora to the rescue -- The president's men -- A family affair -- From Malaysia with love -- The inside man -- "The deal is going to print money" -- Scrap has value -- Hope and despair in Springs -- Paying back the money -- A liquidators' war. 610 20 $a Aurora Empowerment Systems 650 0 $a Gold mines and mining $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Mines and mineral resources $x Corrupt practices $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Political corruption $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Consolidation and merger of corporations $z South Africa. 650 7 $a Consolidation and merger of corporations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875660 650 7 $a Gold mines and mining. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944469 650 7 $a Political corruption. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069240 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030326.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F39376983D8C11EE8AE814B62EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search