A pensive Lonmin CEO Ben Magara pictured at last week’s media conference where he outlined the many measures that his London- and Johannesburg-listed platinum mining company has taken since the tragic killing of 44 miners by police at the company’s Marikana mine in 2012. In addition to a large-scale home building programme for workers, the payment of more than the demanded R12 500 a month to rockdrill operators and the introduction of an employee share ownership scheme, the company is also paying for the schooling, uniforms and transport of the 143 children of those mineworkers killed. Most are attending boarding school and the group has produced its first BSc graduate. “We can’t bring back their loved ones, but we definitely can assist in bringing some economic potential into their lives,” Magara commented at the media conference attended by Mining Weekly.