Harmony Gold issued statement by email to GATA supporters of YES.
Subj: GATA - Harmony Gold to GATA Supporters
Date: 1/11/01
From: LePatron @ LeMetropoleCafe.com
To: dougagatanut @ GataNutHouse.usa
From GATA Secretary/Treasurer Chris Powell:
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:
Harmony Gold today issued a wonderfully encouraging statement
by email to GATA supporters
who had written to the company in support of our cause.
The statement is being posted all over the Internet already,
so I'll attach it below.
It shows that Harmony believes in its product
and is willing to take a leadership position in the industry
and the developing world.
It promises a good reception for GATA Chairman Bill Murphy
and consultant/litigant Reginald H. Howe,
as they prepare to travel to South Africa this month.
It shows that all of us can make a difference,
no matter our position or resources.
Even people who can't afford to make a financial contribution
can make a contribution of activism,
and the latter contribution can be just as substantial.
That was GATA's point when we were founded in 1999.
We believed that a free market in gold could be established
and gold restored to its traditional monetary function
if only gold investors, the gold industry and its employees,
and those who believe in free markets
stopped complaining idly to themselves
and started to DO something to correct the injustice we saw.
If we can get the active support of South Africa --
the industry, the workers, and the government --
we can sustain our lawsuit
and expand our agitation against the manipulators,
and, I'm confident, win out.
With South Africa behind us, we'll be impossible to stop,
and the justice of our cause will become clearer throughout the world.
So thanks to Harmony for its support,
and thanks so much to those friends
who wrote to the company on behalf of our cause.
Remember always:
We are not alone, and all of us can do SOMETHING!
CHRIS POWELL, Secretary/Treasurer
Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.
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STATEMENT BY HARMONY GOLD, JANUARY 10, 2001
Dear GATA Supporters:
Thank you for your e-mails on the good work that has been undertaken by GATA
over the last few years.
As you know, our company has been supportive of GATA and similar interventions
that have the best interests of the gold industry at heart.
We have assisted in various methods of support in the GATA initiatives.
Harmony, as one of the four unhedged major producers left in the gold mining industry,
has a lot to gain from an increased gold price.
Any initiative that can assist in correcting the imbalance in the gold price
needs all the support we can give it.
Representatives of the company will be meeting with representatives from GATA
during the Cape Town Indaba conference to discuss their initiatives further.
I do hope the above assists in indicating our support of this important
initiative from GATA.
Please contact me should you have any additional queries.
Regards,
Ferdi Dippenaar
Marketing Director
Harmony Gold Mine
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