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THE RUSTENBURG PLATINUM MINE
After the South African Prime Minister’s resignation, most of the members of the international news media were gathered in a large media center in Pretoria where many of them were discussing the puzzling scenes and events at the Rustenburg Platinum Mine and at the Witwatersrand Gold Mine. Only a few of the news correspondents were talking about the SANM Executive Committee’s announcement that it would establish and fund orphanages and boarding schools for South Africans and Zimbabweans, and about the hue and cry of several international humanitarian organizations: “Why would the SANM devote financial resources to the establishment of orphanages and boarding schools for children of the very people it discriminates against?” “Doesn’t the SANM’s mission in th
