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Land rights and mining


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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Card image 13 May 2025 Reuters

TotalEnergies aiming to drill in South Africa next year, says executive

French oil major TotalEnergies ss hoping to drill in South Africa next year, once it gets permits, senior vice president for Africa, Mike Sangster, told a conference on Tuesday. The company holds exploration rights over four offshore blocks in the country.

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Card image 30 April 2025 GroundUp

Families of miners trapped since November beg for help

Authorities say it is too dangerous to go down the Krugersdorp mine

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Card image 03 March 2025 Africa is a Country

Mining, murder, and the machinery of exploitation

The massacre of artisanal miners in Stilfontein exposes the South African state’s violent allegiance to corporate interests and a long legacy of extraction and dispossession.

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16 March 2025 Daily Maverick

The making of an eco-warrior and the struggle to give a community a voice

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09 February 2025 Daily Maverick

Mining, succulent poaching and drought push species to the brink in the Richtersveld

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02 February 2025 Daily Maverick

Photo essay: Among the forgotten mountains and deserted mines of the Northern Cape

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29 January 2025 Daily Maverick

Karoo Dust Bowl (Part III) — drought-battered Richtersveld farmers fear destructive creep of mining

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Card image 17 January 2025 BBC

Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality

Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of miners.

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Card image 14 January 2025 Al Jazeera

Operation under way to rescue trapped miners from South African gold mine

The Mining Affected Communities United in Action group says at least 400 men remain trapped in the abandoned mine.

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