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Card image 15 May 2025 GroundUp

Mining companies are breaking their promises – and the state is doing nothing about it

MACUA report finds mining companies are not sticking to their Social and Labour Plans

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16 May 2025 Daily Maverick

Africa’s hottest decade on record — how this affects you

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Card image 16 May 2025 The Elephant

Beyond the High-Rises: Can Nairobi House Its Next Generation?

Nairobi’s exclusionary housing threatens the vital sharing of social and economic classes necessary for a vibrant and resilient city.

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Card image 16 May 2025 Reuters

Guinea revokes 46 mining licences, signalling stricter oversight of major operators

Guinea has revoked the licences of 46 mining companies operating in the country, a government source told Reuters on Thursday, while another said it could be up to 53 permits, in what some analysts see as a warning shot to larger operators in the world's second-largest bauxite producer. The move

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Card image 14 May 2025 The Star

Minutes of ANC Meeting with Afrikaner community released as racial tensions grow

According to the minutes, Afrikaner leaders expressed alarm over the implementation of the Expropriation Bill, which they claim threatens property rights and disproportionately targets white landowners.

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Card image 15 May 2025 IOL

Traditional leadership demands action on rural neglect in upcoming National Budget

No investor will consider establishing operations in a community without roads, electricity or water. The continued failure to address these basic needs perpetuates poverty and undermines national growth.

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14 May 2025 IOL

SA White Afrikaners land in US, but Episcopal Church says ‘not in our pews’

Episcopal Church in the United States has rejected a government directive to resettle White Afrikaners refugees over more vulnerable global populations, citing moral and theological concerns.

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Card image 06 May 2025 GroundUp

District Six families must wait at least three more years to return

Government has not yet secured funding to build the houses

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Card image 13 May 2025 EWN

WC women farmworkers call for Labour Dept to enforce laws on commercial farms

They took their grievances to the department’s doorsteps on Tuesday in the Cape Town CBD.

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Card image 13 May 2025 GroundUp

Dunoon erupts in protest after the City of Cape Town knocks down walls in informal settlement

Residents have been replacing shacks with brick and mortar homes

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Card image 13 May 2025 The Citizen

Government settles land claims worth over R200 million since start of 2024/25 financial year

According to Rise Mzansi, expropriation should be properly applied in cases of public housing and rural development.

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Card image 14 May 2025 IOL

The true value of land: it’s not who owns it, but how it’s used

The resolution of the land question is not only morally and politically right, but it is also an economic imperative in South Africa.

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