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26 March 2023
Daily Maverick
The DMRE and Sita will virtually host a compulsory briefing session with prospective bidders on Friday, 31 March.
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24 March 2023
Daily Maverick
The establishment has become so tone-deaf to the point of not realising how much it is humiliating, undignifying and killing people who have suffered immensely under the brutal and oppressive regimes of colonialism and apartheid.
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12 March 2023
Daily Maverick
‘Tendele acts as if it can do anything it wants in our community … It is as if our lives do not matter. We are merely dots on a map to be told, and not asked.’ — Israel Nkosi, resident of the Emalahleni area in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
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23 February 2023
GroundUp
Company criticised for huge profits amidst climate crisis
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20 February 2023
Daily Maverick
If South Africa’s energy woes can be attributed, at least in part, to resistance to the transition from coal to renewable energy, then it is all the more important that the Just Transition delivers on the ‘just’ part of the equation.
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07 February 2023
Daily Maverick
In his speech to the Investing in African Mining Indaba on Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa pointedly said the government was in the process of procuring an ‘off-the-shelf cadastral system’, a crucial reform that the industry has long been lobbying for. He also acknowledged the many challenges faced by the sector in South Africa.
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09 February 2023
GroundUp
TotalEnergies plans to drill for oil and gas between Mossel Bay and Cape St Francis.
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07 February 2023
Daily Maverick
Diversified metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater has confiscated excavators and front-end loaders being used by illegal chrome miners around its platinum group metals (PGM) operations in Rustenburg. This speaks to the scale of a scourge that CEO Neal Froneman says is spinning ‘out of control’.
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01 February 2023
GroundUp
Marathon legal battle against R14.25-million defamation case continues
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22 January 2023
GroundUp
Here’s what government can do about it.
Land rights and mining read moreZimbabwe: Eight years on, authorities yet to give update on the disappeared journalist and pro-democracy activist https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/zimbabwe-eight-years-on/
Climate change: Latest IPCC report highlights the critical need to transform agrifood systems https://africasciencenews.org/climate-change-latest-ipcc-report-highlights-the-critical-need-to-transform-agrifood-systems/
The Museveni regime, which has been in power for the past 36 years, is no stranger to cracking down on dissenting voices and detaining critics. Now climate change activists are targeted for critiquing the EACOP oil pipeline
https://africanarguments.org/2023/03/enemies-of-the-state-uganda-targets-activists-spearheading-fight-against-controversial-eacop-pipeline/
The first water UN Water Conference in 40 years seeks to avert a global water crisis. But for farmers in Eastern Africa facing catastrophic food insecurity or pastoralists who have lost over eleven million animals since 2020, the crisis is already here.
https://climate-diplomacy.org/magazine/environment/risk-informed-water-governance-critical-tool-avert-hunger-and-conflict
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