Mining
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
Elections 2021: Xolobeni voters may kick ANC out
Poor services and a controversial mining project have fuelled disaffection with governing party
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Daniel Steyn
Feature | 8 July 2021
A thriving trade has sprung up around informal mining in Gauteng
Immigrant traders supply miners with everything from water to socks
News | 7 July 2021
Aussie mining company fires Mark Caruso as CEO
Unclear if firing will impact on case in which Caruso is suing six South Africans for defamation
By John Yeld
News | 1 April 2021