{"id":9834,"date":"2012-04-12T04:07:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/implats-charged-with-culpable-homicide-over-miners-death\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T04:07:48","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T02:07:48","slug":"implats-charged-with-culpable-homicide-over-miners-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-charged-with-culpable-homicide-over-miners-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats charged with culpable homicide over miner&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 11<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Impala<br \/>\nPlatinum, the world&#8217;s second-largest producer of the<br \/>\nprecious metal, confirmed on Wednesday that it had been charged<br \/>\nwith culpable homicide following a fatality at one of its mines<br \/>\nfive years ago.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The NPA (National Prosecuting Authority) has charged Impala<br \/>\nwith culpable homicide. Impala asked for particulars relating to<br \/>\nthe charge in September last year and is still awaiting the<br \/>\ninformation,&#8221; the company said in response to e-mailed questions<br \/>\nfrom Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Impala denies any liability in the death of Mr Phetoka,&#8221;<br \/>\nthe company said, referring to Lesotho national Paulus Mosala<br \/>\nPhetoka, the worker who died in the incident.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats said it was charged by the NPA in July last year but<br \/>\nfelt it was not necessary to tell shareholders, because it had<br \/>\nnot received any details of the charge, nor had it been found<br \/>\nguilty of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Mitchell, a lawyer at Bell Dewar in Johannesburg,<br \/>\nsaid that it was not unusual for the NPA to charge a corporation<br \/>\nwith culpable homicide but that it was unusual for the charge to<br \/>\nbe laid in relation to a mine fatality.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He said the NPA could charge a chief executive with<br \/>\nvicarious liability but that it was more likely the company<br \/>\nwould end up paying a fine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats has already had a rough year with a six-week strike<br \/>\nat its Rustenburg operations costing it 2.4 billion rand ($300<br \/>\nmillion) and a public spat with Zimbabwe over the handing over<br \/>\nof a 51 percent stake in its local unit Zimplats to the<br \/>\ngovernment.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares of Implats were unchanged at around 150 rand ($18.80)<br \/>\nby late afternoon on Wednesday. The JSE&#8217;s bluechip Top 40 Index<br \/>\nwas 0.09 percent up at the time.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.0160 South African rand)<br \/>\n($1 = 7.9777 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, editing by Ed Stoddard and<br \/>\nJane Baird)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 11 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Impala Platinum, the world&#8217;s second-largest producer of the precious metal, confirmed on Wednesday that it had been charged with culpable homicide following a fatality at one of its mines five years ago. &#8220;The NPA (National Prosecuting Authority) has charged Impala with culpable homicide. 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