Heritage Cases

• AEPC 10 (150 graves) at GPS coordinates: S 26°05.992’ E 029°15.731’ This cemetery contains 150 graves located on the farm Steenkoolspruit 18 IS, near Kriel, Mpumalanga Province. The cemetery is located in the ATCOM East area. The details of the persons buried here can be found in the attached grave register. Of the 150 graves, 74 have associated next of kin who have requested that we relocate their graves. The graves will be relocated to the cemeteries as requested by the families. All unclaimed graves will be relocated to Kromdraai with the same dignity as the claimed graves. • AEPC 8 (5 graves) at GPS coordinates: S 26°05.992’ E 029°15.731’ This cemetery contains 5 graves located on the farm Steenkoolspruit 18 IS, near Kriel, Mpumalanga Province. The cemetery is located in the ATCOM East area. The details of the persons buried here can be found in the attached grave register. Of the 5 graves, none have associated next of kin who have requested that we relocate their graves. The graves will be relocated to the cemeteries as requested by the families. All unclaimed graves will be relocated to Kromdraai with the same dignity as the claimed graves. STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT The cemetery is adversely impacted upon by the expansion of coal mining by the Impunzi Complex Project. We have conducted an intensive process of social consultation in order to identify the buried individuals and to obtain permission for exhumation and re-interment from the affected families, communities and other bona fide interested and affected parties. This intensive process commenced on Tuesday, 26 January 2010 with the erection of bilingual (English and isiZulu) site notices at all the cemeteries. Bilingual (isiZulu and English) newspaper notices were published in the Daily Sun and Witbank News on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 and Wednesday, 12 May 2010 respectively. The intensive physical social consultation process commenced on Wednesday, 17 February 2010 and the methodology followed in terms of this consultative process comprised the following: • Identification of persons who may have resided in the study area by speaking to elderly people who have lived within the surroundings of the study area all their lives. • During conversations with these individuals leads may have been forthcoming of families or individuals who used to reside within the study area. • Our social consultation team visited each of the leads, to ascertain whether these individuals would have graves buried within the study area. • Once families with graves within the study area had been identified, a date was scheduled on which the physical identification of the graves could be undertaken and if the family so wishes the proposed permission forms could be signed. • On the identification date the respective family representatives were physically taken to the cemeteries where their graves were buried. The representatives then identified their graves and the respective (unique) grave numbers were recorded by the social consultation team. • This was followed by a meeting at the mine where the proposed relocation was explained to the family, and those families willing to sign the permission were then given the opportunity to do so. As a result of the social consultation process the following results were achieved: Of the 155 graves located within this cemetery, 74 have been positively identified by the affected families and a signed request form for the relocation for each grave has been provided (to be hand delivered as an addendum).