Kofi Bentil, Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, has told Gold Fields to go back to their country, South Africa, as the Ghana government will not renew their mining lease.
According to Kofi Bentil, they will do everything they can to ensure the Gold Fields lease is not renewed because people in South Africa are hostile to the Ghanaian people.
He asserted that there is no proper reason to allow Gold Fields to profit from Ghana’s resources when its people treat Ghanaians like bandits.
In a Facebook post, Kofi Bentil wrote, “We will do everything we can to ensure your lease is not renewed because people in your country are hostile to our people. There is no proper reason to allow you to profit from our resources when your people treat us like bandits!!! It is our land, our gold and our lease; we won’t renew it for you. If our government tries, we will fight it!!! .
Go back to your country !!!”.
In another post, Kofi Bentil added, “Make no mistake, Ghana is not retaliating in the same measure! We have not sacked MTN, DSTV or SHOPRITE yet, although SA citizens are oppressing us. The resistance against the Goldfields lease is just a small and reasonable response. #DontRenewGoldfieldsLease”.
His comments come on the back of the CEO of Gold Fields, Mike Fraser, speaking at the Awudua in the Western Region on May 7 during a courtesy call on Nana Asare Brempong II, and the elders of the Apinto Divisional Area, disclosing that Gold Fields is not going to give up in any way on Tarkwa.
He stated, “We are not going to give up in any way on Tarkwa. In November last year, we submitted a lease extension for the Tarkwa mine, which would give us… another 20 years of mining at Tarkwa”.
Kofi Bentil’s comments follow, the 297 Ghanaians who were airlifted from South Africa to Ghana on May 27, 2026.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has disclosed that more evacuation flights from South Africa will take place next week.
In a statement on his X page, Ablakwa wrote, “Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah must be proud of us. More evacuation flights next week. For God and Country.”
His comments follow the 297 Ghanaians who were on board the initial flight and were met on arrival by senior government officials.
Ablakwa disclosed that among the first batch of 297 Ghanaians who arrived at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra on Tuesday, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight, 26 of them were detained Ghanaians in South Africa.
Speaking to the evacuees during a reception ceremony at the airport, Mr Ablakwa said,
“We negotiated with the South African government that since we are evacuating our nationals, we don’t want to leave anybody behind in prison,” the Minister stated.
“So now, there is no Ghanaian in any South African prison for visa violations. We have brought all of them back home”.
“Today, the Mahama administration is demonstrating that wherever Ghanaians are, we will make sure you are protected, your dignity is respected, and we will go to the length of this world to bring you back home safely,” he said.
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