Category: Ecology
Rebellions don’t end – they regenerate
By Extinction Rebellion October 20, 2019 Source: Extinction Rebellion It’s difficult to imagine the number of rebels currently feeling exhausted, disorientated, and proud. Though we know it’s not over for everyone, this week saw the…
Ethiopia Gets Its Teff Back
By Jerry Chifamba Cape Town — The Ethiopian government is celebrating a major victory in a long-running dispute over who owns the patent for products made from teff – an ancient grain that forms the…
Seismic oil surveys on West Coast pose threat to marine food chain
Original – Western Cape / 1 February 2019, 11:28am / Andy Muranda A Norwegian company has applied to conduct seismic surveys for oil along the Cape’s West Coast using air-gun blasts known to be highly damaging to marine life. …
Xolobeni – Mining and the betrayal of the Land and People of South Africa
Transworld Energy and Mineral Resources clear influence over the DMR and attacks against rural people must end. On the 26th of November 2018 another community activist working with the Amadiba Crisis Committee was murdered (see this article). There has been no justice and little fanfare. Ignoring the history the government media SABCNews has published a divisive story focused on threats made in response to the latest coercion of the people. Is it okay that SAPS and SABC being used against South Africans like this?
The South African crisis: how we got here and what to do about it
By Seeraj Mohamed | Amandla Issue 61/62 | 18 January 2019 The MEC, financialisation and the crisis The solutions we develop to solve a crisis depends on how we understand the crisis. This understanding will…
“30 PIECES OF SILVER FOR XOLOBENI MINING LICENCES, MINISTER MANTASHE?” – SAFCEI
15 JANUARY 2019 Issued by Natasha Adonis, on behalf of the Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI). For more information, contact Natasha on 0797-999-654 or Natasha@safcei.org.za. As Minister of Mineral Resources, Gwede Mantashe gets…
Looking Beyond Entrepreneurial Illusions to End Africa’s Food Crisis
January 15, 2019Africa, Agriculture, Ecology, Economy Terry Leahy Over the last fifteen years, I have focussed my research on food security projects in the rural areas of Southern and Eastern Africa, in countries previously colonized…
Seismic testing destroying South Africa’s sea life
Humpback whale beached at Amanzimtoti Beach
Solar vs Nuclear: The Tale of Two Energy Sources
Mike Jacobs, senior energy analyst, Climate & Energy Program | February 15, 2017, 1:02 pm EST Last year’s solar deployment numbers just came in, and they are, in a word, phenomenal. Utilities bought more new…
OPINION | Going from a miner to a cabinet minister changed Gwede Mantashe
Opinion & Analysis / 27 November 2018, 3:53pm / EBRAHIM HARVEY I cannot believe Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe is the same man I first met when we were both in trade unions in the…
