Breaches must be punished

ONCE UPON A time Thabo Mbeki was persecuting Sasol’s Pieter Cox, using state resources such as the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Bulelani Ngcuka, who was the National Director of Public Prosecutions.

The NPA charged Sasol with the contravention of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, but did nothing to Eskom, which experienced similar accidents (incidents) and injuries on duty.

Why did Sasol go and invest in Louisiana in the US and Iran instead of Nigeria, especially after Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo were best friends of George W Bush?

It seems like Obasanjo retaliated (tit for tat) by banning South African chicken imports to Nigeria, so that his own poultry businesses could flourish.

What surprised me is the fact that mining giants such as Anglo Gold Ashanti (Anglo American Corporation), Gold Fields (now called Sibanye), Anglo Platinum and others were let off the hook scot-free.

Those above-mentioned mining companies contravened the Mine Health and Safety Act, Occupational Health and Safety Act, Compensation of Injuries and Diseases Act, and other related laws of the land.

These companies will never contravene the US Occupational Safety and Health Act, UK Health and Safety at Work Act, etcetera, without consequences.

Mining houses used to say that the taxi industry’s death toll is way too high compared with their own fatalities statistics. How many mining executives have been arrested, prosecuted and convicted by the NPA? Sebokeng