“Your corporate values are meaningless if local communities are not involved in decisions that affect them”: Speech by Brown Matloko, Wonderkop, South Africa, at Sibanye-Stillwater’s AGM 2026

Speech by Brown Matloko, environmental and community activist with the organisation HERD (Helping Environment and Resilient Development, www.herdnpc.org), at the 2026 Annual General Meeting of the South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater

Good day to all,

Thank you for the opportunity to speak today.

It seems the company’s stated values respect, accountability, commitment, and enabling — have become meaningless to affected communities because, in practice, communities still do not have meaningful participation in decisions that directly affect their lives.

For years, communities have repeatedly raised the same concerns, yet Sibanye-Stillwater continues to make decisions and respond to issues without properly involving the complainants themselves. Full article

“When can we call engagement without meaningful change inaction?”: Speech by Gomotsegang Brown Matloko, Wonderkop community, at BASF AGM 2025

Good afternoon, Members of the Board, dear shareholders.

I am Gomotsegang Brown Matloko, I am from Wonderkop community in Marikana. I am speaking to you directly from South Africa, on the effectiveness or better: the lack of effectiveness of BASF’s human rights and environmental due diligence measures within its supply chain.

BASF rightly emphasizes its commitment to sustainability and responsible sourcing. These commitments are laudable on paper. However, the true measure of commitment and responsibility lies not in policy documents, but in tangible outcomes on the ground. Concerning the sourcing of platinum from Sibanye-Stillwater in South Africa, we see a significant and persistent gap between stated intentions and reality. Full article

“It is time for BASF to recognise that the impact of the Marikana massacre is transgenerational”: Speech by Amina Hassan Fundi

Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed shareholders and executives of BASF,

Allow me to paint a picture for you. Imagine a nine-year-old girl, surrounded by her loving family at the dinner table—mom, dad, and older brother. They’re sharing stories and laughter, basking in the warmth of their togetherness. Then, the phone rings, shattering the tranquility. You see, that call brought news of a man—a husband, a father, a hardworking employee—called to duty to serve his employers. But instead of returning home to his family, he met a violent end, killed in cold blood and lit up in flames. His story, once one of love and dedication, was reduced to a footnote—a mere “necessary sacrifice” in the pursuit of profit and production – by Lonmin, by Sibanye-Stillwater, by BASF. Full article

“The Marikana massacre destroyed my whole family”: Speech by Ndikho Jokanisi Bomela

My name is Ndikho Jokanisi Bomela. I was nine-years-old when I became an orphan after my father, Semi Jokanisi, was killed on August 13 2012 in Marikana.

I am a man now. I have been to entabeni, the mountain, to perform the Xhosa cultural initiation rites to become a man. But I am also a man because I have had to grow up fast after my father was killed.

My father died for a wage of R12500, which BASF’s suppliers of platinum, Lonmin, refused to engage with the striking mineworkers about — colluding instead to have the strike resolved by the South African police. Full article