Mining
Mines are failing Limpopo communities, says scathing report
Researchers recommend that state implements harsher measures against non-compliant companies
News | 24 February 2022
Western Cape government joins battle over mining
Appeal filed against new coastal prospecting licence
By John Yeld
News | 23 February 2022
Concourt hears vital defamation case
Defendants want common law to be developed to prevent ‘SLAPP’ suits
By John Yeld
Law | 20 February 2022
Australian mining company’s “SLAPP case” against its critics heads to Concourt
Constitutional issues at stake in R14.25 million defamation action against environmentalists and activists
By John Yeld
Law | 1 February 2022
Alexkor facing criminal charges over Northern Cape mining operations
Environment department lays charges against state diamond miner over use of “coffer dams”
By John Yeld
News | 19 January 2022
How mining erodes the rights of women
Women are also marginalised when it comes to the economic benefits that mining brings
Opinion | 7 October 2021
How a determined community is fighting the army’s attempts to evict them
Happiness Village’s residents fear for their lives and face unlawful evictions, beatings and intimidation, legal action and shack demolitions
Feature | 9 September 2021
Platinum mine tense after assassination of unionist
NUMSA’s Malibongwe Mdazo was gunned down outside the CCMA office in Rustenburg
News | 26 August 2021
Battle to stop 22km long mine on Wild Coast
Xolobeni community deeply divided
By Daniel Steyn and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
Feature | 28 July 2021