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19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
The impoverished locals – who blame mining for the loss of arable land and destruction of the rural agrarian economy – want the Twickenham mine to open or forfeit mining rights.
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19 May 2022
Daily Maverick
This is what it looks like when unregulated, illegal mining meets governance failure – a fire in a coal mine that has been burning for weeks, leaving nearby communities choking in the fumes. Perhaps most worryingly, nobody knows the extent to which fires may be burning underground.
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04 May 2022
GroundUp
Licence to extend the Somkhele mine set aside
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27 March 2022
Daily Maverick
Minster of environment, Barbara Creecy’s recent revocation of the 2021 Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations Amendment is effectively reversing some of the very important progress communities have made in their ongoing fight for environmental justice and self-determination.
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28 March 2022
Daily Maverick
Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy has withdrawn an amendment to legislation that helped protect, among others, communal land rights holders from unwanted mining on their land. Was this because of Cabinet pressure from the mining ministry?
Land rights and mining read moreEnergy minister Gwede Mantashe has made wild accusations that a children’s rights fund in the UK was helping to drive a negative narrative against him with the assistance of an institution at UCT and the CSIR.
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18 January 2022
Daily Maverick
An Australian company is conducting seismic surveys on the West Coast, but NGOs have challenged the move.
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11 January 2021
Daily Maverick
The heavy-handed way in which the government — Gwede Mantashe in particular — handled the Shell saga is starkly reminiscent of the apartheid regime’s approach when a multinational applied to mine the sand dunes along the eastern shores of Lake St Lucia in KwaZulu-Natal in 1989.
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11 September 2021
Mail & Guardian
Women sleep outside in the cold to stop what they consider mineral theft by a mining company, with state collusion
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28 July 2021
GroundUp
Xolobeni community deeply divided
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The DRC and Ethiopia experienced the largest conflict
displacements in Africa. By the end of 2020, there were a little over 2 million new conflict displacements in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and more than 1.6 million in Ethiopia.
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