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23 June 2021
LARC
By Shannon Herd-Hoare and Ramabina Mahapa If mining comes to Makhasaneni in rural KwaZulu-Natal, will the community be compensated fairly — and how? The market value of land or immovables such as h…
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08 July 2021
Daily Maverick
Poor services and a controversial mining project have fuelled disaffection with the governing party.
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29 May 2021
Moneyweb
Alexkor carries out diamond mining operations in the Richtersveld area and in the shallow and deep waters off the north-west coast of South Africa. The land mining operations are carried out throug...
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02 May 2021
Daily Maverick
On Friday it emerged that the Mineral Resources and Energy Minister and ANC Chair, Gwede Mantashe, and his wife, Nolwandle Mantashe, had been implicated by a losing bidder in the project to provide “emergency” power generation. The consequences of this could be immense, both for South Africa’s continuous energy failure and the ANC’s future balance of power.
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13 April 2021
The Conversation
Traditional leaders do not adequately represent the interests of rural communities in dealing with mining companies.
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08 April 2021
Daily Maverick
In August 2020, out of the blue, the owners of the 28,000-hectare Selati Game Reserve received word that a company called Tiara Mining had plans to excavate a series of open-cast pits on their land. The mining application was at an advanced stage, it seemed, which was strange — no one from Tiara Mining had ever set foot on the conservancy. And so began a battle that would unearth a litany of contradictions.
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10 March 2021
GroundUp
Provincial government revokes status of part of Mabola Protected Environment
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05 March 2021
Daily Maverick
Five years on, the mothers of three mine workers who died in an accident at Lily Mine in Mpumalanga still hold a vigil at the scene of the incident.
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28 February 2021
Daily Maverick
Community and environmental groups took a beating – twice – when they challenged a major mining company in the courts. But they remain determined to fight all the way to the Constitutional Court.
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09 February 2021
GroundUp
Judge said applicants had not produced evidence to support their claims
Land rights and mining read moreMining-led dispossession has led to limited access to farming land and local elite control over mineral rents exacerbates inequality and conflict. https://twitter.com/KnowledgebaseL/status/1417442195578163201
Land, conflict and radical distributive claims in South Africa's rural... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214790X21001374
AGE OF ANARCHY: Abahlali baseMjondolo: We need to build a just peace amid unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-07-15-abahlali-basemjondolo-we-need-to-build-a-just-peace-amid-unrest-in-kwazulu-natal-and-gauteng/
Vinpro survey highlights lockdown impacts on black owned wine brands https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2021/07/nearly-half-of-black-owned-wine-businesses-wont-survive-the-next-year/
Plan to ensure food gets to all communities after unrest https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/plan-to-ensure-food-gets-to-all-communities-after-unrest-2100a1e5-f662-42ff-b7e2-446898cd4f6b
Keys to their homes still missing for 108 District Six claimants https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/news/keys-to-their-homes-still-missing-for-108-district-six-claimants-d4058f28-ee6e-44a8-ae29-0eb7ac2f96a9
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