Bua Mining Communities

Hundreds of the community members across Bafokeng communities came to celebrate a court victory against their Chief on the 21 March. The Royal Bafokeng Chief/Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi and his lieutenants in the Royal Bafokeng Traditional leadership have faced fierce objections from the community on their attempt to snatch land without consultation. Hundreds of the community members across Bafokeng communities came to celebrate a court victory against their Chief on the 21 March. The Royal Bafokeng Chief/Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi and his lieutenants in the Royal Bafokeng Traditional leadership have faced fierce objections from the community on their attempt to snatch land without consultation. The Bafokeng self-crowned monarch has since in the mid 1990’s referred to their chief as the King. This has generated crude arrogance amongst the authority and was visible in its staff towards the subjects. Bafokeng are known locally as people full of pride. This attitude has led to the culture  o...

Two years after shooting to fame, an association of blind people in Chaneng village remains hopeless amidst millions of rand donations from the Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPlat) and a North West provincial government department. ‘We started on 08 th June 2005. Every member was contributing R30-00 per month towards the development of the project including buying seedlings’, explained Tadidi Letupu; a blind granny seated at the corner of their full office. Production charts, trophies, certificates of achievements and attendance of workshops and trainings attract you to enter an office with cupboards and a shelf-less display stands. Around a flowery table cloth is four whitish cane chairs, ledger books and files of the daily and weekly sales of the tried and tested Chaneng Association for the Blind. In 2011, the RBPlat approached the Association for the Blind to upgrade their gardening project. The RBPlat’s 2002 Integrated Annual Report (IAR) highlights that, “The Ch...