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In disputes with misbehaving companies, communities have successfully turned to environmental litigation. But there are limitations.
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South African law hasn’t specifically recognised the traditional concept of a communal family house.
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Marking 30 years since the Restitution of Land Rights Act, minister Mzwandile Nyhontsho vowed to combat corruption in land reform.
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In 1994, total farm land with title deeds (thus outside what the apartheid government set aside for black people) covered 77.58 million hectares of the total surface area of South Africa of 122 mil...
Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has declined a meeting with Land Reform Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso, citing cultural seclusion until the upcoming Umkhosi wokweshwama ceremony.
Land governance and administration read more
09 January 2025
Mail & Guardian
Such efforts must not leave the former homelands region behind, as has been the case in the first three decades of democracy
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07 January 2025
Mining Weekly
China’s Zijin Mining Group aims to start producing lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo early next year from one of the world’s largest deposits of the battery metal. Zijin is accelerating activity at a site in southeast Congo that’s still claimed by AVZ Minerals. The Australian firm has initiated arbitration proceedings against both the government and Zijin as part of its efforts to recover an exploration license.
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10 January 2025
Al Jazeera
EU’s climate monitor says climate crisis is pushing temperatures to levels never experienced by modern humans.
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06 January 2025
The Conversation
Indigenous knowledge systems have helped small-scale farmers keep food on the table during times of drought.
Food security read more
12 December 2024
The Conversation
Burning sugarcane trash is common in South Africa. With support small-scale sugarcane farmers could turn this plant waste into bioenergy.
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07 January 2025
VOA
Activist Jimmy Areseb and others accused officials of accepting bribes from a Chinese mining company in return for access to lithium deposits
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07 January 2025
Al Jazeera
South Africa’s military has enhanced border operations along the Limpopo River to halt smugglers and illegal crossings.
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09 January 2025
VOA
Continent’s challenges include changing weather, conflicts, shrinking agricultural farmlands
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09 January 2025
Daily Maverick
‘Blood minerals’ and Rwanda’s sinister regime have again been thrown into sharp relief by criminal complaints filed last month in France and Belgium against Apple by the DRC — which is also a gangster state.
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05 January 2025
Daily Maverick
Three artisanal miners who recently emerged from abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein in North West have told the Constitutional Court about the abhorrent conditions underground. The NGO Mining Affected Communities United in Action wants the court to sanction police and other government actors. Meanwhile, government lawyers argue that the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine should be responsible for the rescue operation.
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10 January 2025
Daily Maverick
Trapped illegal miners in Stilfontein have issued a grim update on their condition, with reports of starvation and deaths escalating.
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