Lonmin said it may have to cut its promise to spend R100-million ($7.5-million) a year on housing even as Amnesty International condemned the world’s third-largest platinum producer for failing to fulfill pledges to employees made a decade ago. The company, with 13 500 employees in need of formal accommodation, has consistently failed to deliver on its 2006 social and labour plan that vowed to build 5 500 houses for its workers by 2011, Amnesty International said in a report published Monday. Its reasons — failed agreements with developers, lack of land, lower commodity prices and employee debt “do not stack up,” Amnesty said.
