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.
Tebogo Abrahams, chairperson of civic organisation South African Youth in Mining, said the protest was against South 32 selling its assets without including communities in the mining towns of Mpumalanga.The march, Abrahams said, would be held outside the offices of South 32. It will be a"peaceful" protest, he added.
"There is no operation that will take place until our demands are met. The protest will go to the mines if there is no resolution to the matter," Abrahams said. Sam Masango, chairperson of the South African Youth Council, said they were also opposing the deal concluded by the two mining companies.He said members of the mining communities that would be taking part would be bused from Mpumalanga to Johannesburg.
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You going to shoot them too?
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'Huge' JMPD contingent to monitor protest outside mining company officesA 'huge' number of JMPD officers will be deployed to the offices of Australian mining company South 32 in Johannesburg on Friday, where about 700 community members from Mpumalanga will be picketing.
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'Huge' JMPD contingent to monitor protest outside mining company officesA 'huge' number of JMPD officers will be deployed to the offices of Australian mining company South 32 in Johannesburg on Friday, where about 700 community members from Mpumalanga will be picketing.
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