Search results

Keywords: Environmental Rights  Content: Articles  Page: 1 of 28  Items: 272

Advanced Search

Kimberley’s big hole of municipal failure

10 December 2025 | ARTICLE

By Steve Kretzmann

...environmental pollution, the loss of potential jobs and revenue, and a threat to human health. But this is just one of the municipality’s failures. Finances, water supply, waste management, and commun...

Kimberley: A provincial capital sunk in sewage

1 December 2025 | ARTICLE

By Steve Kretzmann

...Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development responded to GroundUp’s questions on the matter. Kimberley resident and DA MP Delmaine Christians said some of the 26 affected families were ac...

Maseru dump site to be closed after community goes to court

28 November 2025 | ARTICLE

By Sechaba Mokhethi

...rights to a clean and healthy environment. Court papers detailed how families were being “literally choked” by plumes of smoke, had to endure bad odours, and live at constant risk of airborne, waterbo...

Fight over tourism development in the Cederberg

22 October 2025 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...environmental authorisation. The provincial Department of Environmental Affairs fined Kok R625,000 but later reduced this to R125,000, citing his membership of the Cederberg Conservancy as one of the ...

Appeal court blocks Eskom’s giant Richards Bay power plant

18 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Tania Broughton

...environmental approval process. The court set aside the environmental authorisation issued in December 2019 by the chief director of integrated environmental authorisations in the Department of Forest...

Activists march against Shell’s oil exploration

16 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Ihsaan Haffejee and Thamsanqa Mbovane

...environmental threats from fossil fuel exploration. Protesters carried banners and placards, some which read, “We cannot eat oil and gas,” and “To hell with Shell.” Wild Coast communities and environ...

Shell’s Wild Coast seismic blasting case goes to the Concourt

12 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Tania Broughton

...environmental groups are challenging. Wild Coast communities argue the court order perpetuates illegality and violates their constitutional rights to food, livelihoods and cultural practices. Shell cl...

Dump site fire leaves Maseru residents in choking smoke for days

11 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Sechaba Mokhethi

...environmentally acceptable. It promised a new landfill at Tšoeneng – plans first drafted in 2005 but stalled ever since. The ministry now says a R400-million phased project is being designed, includin...

Court blocks TotalEnergies oil exploration from Cape Agulhas to Cape Town

14 August 2025 | ARTICLE

By Liezl Human

...environmental authorisation for a TotalEnergies’ offshore oil and gas exploration project. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The Western Cape High Court has set aside the environmental authorisation fo...

Protests against Germany and Glencore mark Namibian Genocide Remembrance Day

29 May 2025 | ARTICLE

By Matthew Hirsch and Ihsaan Haffejee

...environmental justice organisations, trade unions and mining affected communities. Protesters claim that Glencore’s supply of coal to Israel is powering its energy infrastructure and enabling the cont...