Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

As the case unfolds, it is critical to remember what is at stake.
More than a century of damage caused by the South African
gold mining industry requires urgent remedy. The mining
companies must pay long overdue compensation to the workers,
widows, children, and communities they have impoverished.
Dean Peacock is executive director of Sonke Gender Justice. Emily Nagisa
Keehn, formerly Sonke’s manager for policy development and advocacy, is
an associate director of the academic programme at Harvard Law School’s
human rights programme. A non-governmental organization (NGO) is any
non-profit, voluntary citizens’ group which is organized on a local, national
or international level.
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NOVEMBER 2016