'Huge' JMPD contingent to monitor protest outside mining company offices

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JMPD spokesperson Wayne Minaar said the march would take place from 9.30am.

The JMPD said it will monitor a protest outside a mining company's head office in Johannesburg on Friday. File photo.A"huge" number of Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers will be deployed to the offices of Australian mining company South 32 in Johannesburg on Friday, where about 700 community members from Mpumalanga's mining towns will be picketing.

"There will be a group of people picketing at the intersection of Melrose Boulevard and Athol Oaklands Road. A representative from the company will receive a memorandum from the group," Minaar said.The march, according to its organisers, is about Mpumalanga communities' dissatisfaction in South 32's operations.In August, Business Day reported that Mike Teke’s Seriti Resources had emerged as the exclusive bidder for South 32’s SA coal mines.

 

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