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While the climate impacts of burning coal are well documented, a lesser-told story is the misery endured by communities forced to accommodate new coal mines as neighbours. Banks which finance these mines are complicit.
Land rights and mining read more‘I’m giving you a hint… I’m being friendly. Stop writing about it in the newspapers because you’re going to cause a gold rush.’
Land rights and mining read moreIn an effort to rectify mining injustices, human rights lawyers at Richard Spoor Inc have filed a class action suit against some of South Africa’s biggest mining companies, on behalf of retired coal miners who are living with the detrimental health effects of decades of unsafe working conditions, the firm announced on Tuesday.
Land rights and mining read moreAn obscure mining company has revived a rejected proposal under a new name – and Kruger management says it has been kept in the dark about an environmental impact assessment that omits the park.
Land rights and mining read moreBy Dimitri Selibas MAKHASANENI, South Africa — In a village in the rolling hills of grassland, woodlands and scattered homesteads in South Africa’s picturesque KwaZulu-Natal province, a broil between traditional leaders and community members is playing out. For hundreds of years, chiefs, who have been the unequivocal leaders of Zulu communities in the region, have … Continue reading
Land rights and mining read moreA major legal battle over the extension of 30-year mining rights has been averted
Land rights and mining read moreFishers say they were ignored when the original rights were awarded between 1994 and 1998
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The Qhubeka Trust, which was established after the first big silicosis settlement in South Africa, has closed its doors after paying over R421-million to 2,280 former gold mineworkers diagnosed with silicosis.
Land rights and mining read morePan African Resources says it will not give in to the “equivalent of a construction mafia”
Land rights and mining read moreA project of Phuhlisani NPC supported by Absa. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. International License.