"From Marikana to Ludwigshafen: along the platinum supply chain"--page 18. Title from cover. Front cover is folded. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword / Bishop Jo Seoka - 1. Introduction / Britta Becker, Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 2. The convergence of corporate and government interests: the unfinished business of the Marikana massacre / Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm - 3. 'Only the stupidest countries stick to the economic boycott': Germany, Switzerland and Austria as profiteers and pillars of the apartheid system / Simon Knapp, Jakob Krameritsch, Barbara Müller and Walter Sauer - 4. Lonmin in context: the political economy of the South African platinum industry: an interview with Gavin Capps - 5. There is no change in Marikana: the perspective of the women / Asanda Benya and Judy Seidman - 6. Confrontations with BASF: additions to the company history and the Plough Back the Fruits campaign / Maren Grimm and Jakob Krameritsch - 7. Are we requesting too much? : speech and the BASF AGM, Mannheim, Germany, 12 May 2017 / Mzoxolo Magidiwana - 8. The theatre of irresponsibility: cynicism and profitability / María do Mar Castro Varela - 9. Hard rocks - soft rules: human rights violations, the destruction of nature and the role of the state and corporations in international mining / Michael Reckordt - 10. Horizons of responsibility / Franziska Dübgen - 11. The limits of voluntary initiatives: how business stands in the way of binding human rights standards / Sarah Lincoln - 12. The UN treaty on business and human right: South Africa's role / Akhona Mehlo - 13. Rather part of the problem than the solution: on the functions and effects of social audits / Carolijn Terwindt - 14. Power and the politics of corporate responsibility on the Platinum Belt: a conversation with Dinah Rajak - 15. The chemistry is right: the corporation and politics / Jan Pehrke - 16. Corporate structures and tax avoidance by BASF: the platinum perspective / Christoph Trautvetter - 17. From BASF to Volkswagen and the World Bank: German fingerprints at the scene of Lonmin's Marikana massacre / Patrick Bond - 18. Imperialist raw materials strategies in EU politics / Boniface Mabanza - 19. Discourse (as) opposed to the facts: Germany's links to the Marikana massacre have long gone unnoticed / Stefan Buchen - 20. Bared life: colonial and neo-colonial depictions of South African miners in the public imagination / Rosemary Lombard - 21. Postcolonial internationalism: thoughts on redefining global North-South solidarity in the twenty-first century / Alexander Behr and Trevor Ngwane - 22. 'The right to have rights': global social rights as a tool against the power of transnational corporations and capitalist exploitation / Boris Kanzleiter and Britta Becker - 23. The real issues: politics against 'not wanting to know' / Stephan Lessenich - 24. A better life for all? : speech at the General Assembly, Berlin, 4 November 2017 / Thumeka Magwangqana.
Summary:
"The mining industry has always been the backbone of the South African economy, and it still is. A healthy and sustainable mining sector should accordingly form part of the focus of our efforts to heal this country and its people. Nevertheless, the history of mining in South Africa has been and continues to be characterised by the oppression and exploitation of workers under the policy of the migratory system. The new dispensation of 1994, rule under the African National Congress, did not assist much in changing the conditions at the mines. It continues to turn a blind eye to the unjust wages and living and working conditions of miners. Six years after the Marikana massacre we have still seen minimal change for mineworkers and mining communities. Although much has been written about the days leading up to 16 August 2012 and how little has been done, few have analysed the policies and system that make such a tragedy possible. Lonmin Platinum Mine and the events of 16 August are a microcosm of the mining sector and how things can go wrong when society leaves everything to government and "big business". Business as Usual after Marikana is a comprehensive analysis of mining in South Africa. Written by respected academics and practitioners in the field, it looks into the history, policies and business practices that brought us to this point. It also examines how bigger global companies like BASF were directly or indirectly responsible, and yet nothing is done to keep them accountable"--https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/business-as-usual-after-marikana/p/9781928232575
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