{"id":15683,"date":"2012-10-18T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africas-richest-tribe-offers-platinum-model\/"},"modified":"2012-10-18T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-18T04:05:00","slug":"s-africas-richest-tribe-offers-platinum-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-richest-tribe-offers-platinum-model\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s &#8216;richest tribe&#8217; offers platinum model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Same mining salaries go further in kingdom<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Small window to use mineral wealth to fix problems<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Bafokeng still face protests over land claims, pollution<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PHOKENG, South Africa, Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; While South<br \/>\nAfrican mining companies try to halt the spread of deadly labour<br \/>\nstrife, a kingdom that partly governs a small stretch of the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s platinum belt has managed to transform mineral wealth<br \/>\ninto social stability.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Royal Bafokeng Nation has funnelled money it earns from<br \/>\nits Royal Bafokeng Platinum (RBPLat) company into a<br \/>\nmini sovereign wealth fund that provides cash for schools,<br \/>\nclinics and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It and its capital, Phokeng, stand out as a beacon of<br \/>\nsuccess amid the poverty of the platinum belt, where sprawling<br \/>\ntin-hut shanty towns sit alongside billion-dollar mines digging<br \/>\nout the precious metal used in vehicle catalytic converters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The community has not been entirely immune from the labour<br \/>\nunrest that has rocked northwestern South Africa, home to nearly<br \/>\n80 percent of the world&#8217;s known platinum reserves.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It has also been criticised for using the facade of<br \/>\ntraditional leadership to help mining firms expand in the region<br \/>\nand wasteful spending on pet projects of the royal family.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Same mining salaries go further in kingdom * Small window to use mineral wealth to fix problems * Bafokeng still face protests over land claims, pollution By Jon Herskovitz PHOKENG, South Africa, Oct 18 (Reuters) &#8211; While South African mining companies try to halt the spread of deadly labour strife, a kingdom that partly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}