RE:RE:RE:RE:Here we go again...a DRC Truckers StrikeThat's certainly a good point you have made Chintzy.
If you believe there will be a day when the presently gainfully employed Congolese truckers and the stakeholders who employ such vital commercial transportation vehicles operators will not collectively have the required and various forms "leverage" to employ against those seeking to permanently put them out of work, I would urge you and anyone else to reconsider such a erred conclusion. There exists a more accomodative solution here and I suggest Ivanhoe Mines Ltd representatives get to supporting such a much more fair solution for those truckers.
Here, let me put it this way, in the form of a question for you and other readers here.
What happens to DRC operating companies, such as Ivanhoe Mines Limited and/or any others primarily benefiting from such a refurbished railway corridor throughout the Congo and well into Angolan Port of Lobito, when several sections of the railway corridor running throughout and then out from the DRC and straight to the Angola port of Lobito are placed semi-permanently out of working order in some most specific way?
You speak of "leverage"? Very well then.
Once certain quite highly motivated, quite disgruntled, out of work with lots of time on their hands and collectively "highly interested parties" realize the very opportunity to go about creating immense amounts of wealth for one another, doing so from arranging for and guaranteeing the "quite timely shorting" of the shares of certain companies then made to be predominantly dependent upon this Lobito railway corridor, I do expect it would be full out "open season" on specific sections of that DRC transiting railroad corridor and even certain specific sections of the Angolan side of the Lobito railway corridor.
Build it well and become dependent upon the DRC transiting section of the Lobito Railway Corridor I say.
In that way, when it's placed out of use for some currently unforseen reasons, the "selling short" opportunity of a lifetime would be just about assured for some.
LOL! Talk about painting a target on the Lobito Railway Corridor. That's want you want to do; to give some DRC Africans a reason to band together and take out strategic sections of the DRC transiting Lobito Railway Corridor.
Yes, yes; that's the ticket, lol!
It's Africa people. When you place a hundred or two hundred people out of work in North America the resulting consequences to your business interests and overall business enterprise are nowhere near as potentially pejoratively impactful as permanently placing a hundred or two hundred African peoples out of work in the DRC.
It doesn't matter if your name is Robert Friedland or Xi Jinping.
When you elect to mess with African DRC peoples livelyhood and intentionally impact them pejoratively without abundant requisite supports and requisite long term compensation above all, there would be a most specific price to ultimately pay for intentionally failing them.
As I said previously, there exists a more fair and comprehensively accomodative solution to this truckrs issue.
I suggest Ivanhoe Mines Ltd representatives immediately get to unambiguopusly supporting such a much more fair and comprehensive solution for those likely made to be permanently unemployed truckers.
Don't show your true colors in Africa Robert Martin Friedland. It's ill advised for you to be seen as doing so.