Shiva Uranium Corporate Social Resposibility and Investment

As we all know that when we are talking about Corporate Social Responsibikty (CSR) we are refering to a mechanism whereby business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the law, ethical standards and international norms. the goal of CSR is to embrace the responsibility for the company's actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all members of the public spheres (Wikipedia, Free Encyclopedia)

In our previous articles produced on Uranium mining in Dominion Reefs under the Uranium One operatios last year, we covered quite a number of articles which reflected promises made which were never kept by the company. amongst promises which were never kept the most were of CSR nature. Issues relating to employees occupational health and safety were reported and published, one ca refer to the strike by Uranium one workers against poor working conditions on the 11th of July 2008. other incidents include the environmental degradation by the same company when its dam wall broke after a heavy rain storm, and about 100 million litres of water was spilled on the 8th of December 2007. But the Uranium one Vice President for Africa and Europe Robert van Niekerk dismmissed concerns that the water might be radioactive. Other promises made by the company to the commuities surrounding Haartebeesfontein area are development projects, non of them were delivered particularly to the community of Dominionville where development projects were needed most.

Today the director of Shiva uranium Lazarus Zim has appesred a number of times in the New Age newspaper advertising his company (Shiva Uranium), claiming that they are contributing significantly to variety of community projects and programmes which they cannot mention, but only the petty two of them.

According to their advertisement they are doing the following:

• They have designed a programme where they have recruited unskilled 37 workers and inducted them in their mine artisan programme.
• They have selected a group of needy children with the help of local police and put them in a specific care programme for a period of one year.

If one takes a close look at their first programme, it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that this programme is aimed at benefiting the company its self, so in a way it is their own operational investment.
When coming second programme, they have identified a group of needy children with the help of local police, why not involve local Community Based organizations to do do that work. what do the SAPS know about social work, as they are law enforcers. what will happen to these children after a period of one year beyond the programme, be thrown back to the streets. This is a ridicule and a mockery of our society.

Meanwhile Shiva Uranium is profiting abnormally giving back insults to members of our communities.

The question is 'Will Shiva Uranium be compliant to ethical standards, the lawand international norms?'