SENSATIONAL new documents claim that controversial scrap-metal company New Reclamation Group struck a deal with the Bhana family to secretly strip Aurora's Grootvlei mine of working equipment.These claims emerge from an affidavit given by Neil Davies, one of the group's former employees, to a liquidation inquiry convened to determine exactly how the Grootvlei and Orkney mines collapsed in 2010 and left 5300 mineworkers high and dry.Aurora's directors were Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela, President Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma, and Thulani Ngubane, while the company was backed by father and son Solly and Fazel Bhana.It is a case study of a failed mining deal. Aurora took over the failed Grootvlei and Orkney mines in July 2009, ostensibly to save the mines. Instead, Aurora never paid for the mines, and now stands accused of systematically stripping the mines and using that money to line the pockets of Aurora directors.Davies' affidavit details how the Bhanas did a deal ...
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