USA Researchers on community struggle visited EEO

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On the 26th May we had meeting in our office in Kwa Thema in Ekurhuleni with visitors, students from Fordham university school of law in New York namely Christopher Ziemba, Olivia Scandura and Zenande Booi.

Purpose of their visit here is to conduct a research on how mining affect communities directly and indirectly, they wanted to find out where mines are no longer operating and not rehabilitated, where mines are operating and communities are facing pollution, contaminated water or no water at all, cracks on housing due to the blasting by mines and destroying infrastructure, where mining start to establish itself and the community face the following:

1.No consultation process,

2.Mines not adhering to environmental laws,

3.No employment.

Mandla Jwili (EEO) inter