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"contents": "<p>Ivanplats ('the Company') takes strong exception to the attempt to draw it into an apparent power struggle in the Mogalakwena Municipality, which has featured in the news in recent weeks. The report <em>(It was a column - Ed)</em> <a href=\"#.VIiuHXtcfhQ\">'Mogalakwena by-elections: Symptoms of a terminally ill democracy'</a> published by the Daily Maverick on 8 December 2014 wrongly implicates the Company's Platreef mine development project in the municipality's troubles and is grossly irresponsible, given that very serious allegations are being made against the project without any substance whatsoever.</p>\r\n<p>The allegations made against the Platreef Project are not only completely untrue but are also defamatory. There is absolutely no basis for the allegations made by one individual who was quoted by the Daily Maverick without the reporter having checked with the Company whether, in fact, we had any knowledge of the alleged 'grey water' deal with the municipality.</p>\r\n<p>The Company would like to place on record that whilst there had been some discussions with the municipality - as has been the case with other mining houses in the area - about a take-off agreement, no such agreement was ever concluded, and discussions with the municipality in this regard have since ceased.</p>\r\n<p>Jeremy Michaels, Company Spokesman</p>",
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