Category: Mining
Two years after landmark silicosis settlement, no one has been paid
20 July 2020 By James Stent Original Article: GroundUP https://www.groundup.org.za/article/two-years-after-r5-billion-silicosis-settlement-no-one-has-been-paid/ Tshiamiso Trust says terms were only reached in late 2019 and Covid-19 has delayed the process Hundreds of thousands of ex-miners, or their families,…
AIR POLLUTION IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19
27 July 2020 – Mfidikoe village By Velile Khoza Here in Mfidikoe village Rustenburg we saw communities suffer the consequences of air pollution from tailing dams . This tailing dams are so toxic to the…
Fighting Fossil Fuels in South Africa: Campaigners Invoke Specters of Climate Chaos by Patrick Bond found on CounterPunch Sept 2019 South Africa is one of the most difficult places to combat fossil fuels, including the…
Climate Justice Critique of South African Political Parties. What are the commitments of the ANC, DA and EFF to a Deep Just Transition to Sustain Life?
https://www.safsc.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Climate-Justice-Critique-of-Parties_9-April-2019.pdf (Original) Introduction South Africa goes to its 5th national elections on May 8th, 2019, with 48 contesting parties. This is in a context in which inequality is worsening, costs of living are going up…
Five killed, 22 feared trapped in South African mine explosion
By Samuel Davidson 13 February 2019 Five people were killed last Wednesday, and 22 others are trapped and feared dead after an explosion in a coal mine that has been closed in the South African…
KZN’s killing fields: 6 activists dead after questioning oil project
Sizwe sama Yende 2019-02-12 23:05 In 2017 an ‘overseas’ delegation announced it wanted to start an oil project in the area. The community planned a protest last year to try to find out details. Since…
Mining brings no benefit, say 79% of community members in audit
By Greg Nicolson• 5 February 2019 Action Aid South Africa’s report Mining in South Africa 2018: Whose Benefit and Whose Burden? pulls no punches. It begins by declaring: “The approach to mining in South Africa…
Mineral Sands Resources fined R1.25-million for unlawful activities in Lutzville.
By John Yeld 6 February 2019 Australian-owned mining company Mineral Sands Resources (MSR) has been fined R1.25 million for unlawful activities at its Tormin heavy minerals mine on the West Coast near Lutzville. The two…
Ghana: Death Toll in Mine Explosion Hits 16
By Samuel Akapule Bolgatanga — Three more persons have died following the underground explosion of mining pit at the Gbane community here in the Upper East Region bringing the total death toll to 16. Earlier,…
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?
