Category: Politics
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…
Calling time on fossil fuel subsidies
UN Environment is working with governments to collect internationally coherent data on fossil fuel subsidies that can help advance global efforts to address climate change. Gone are the days when you could fill up your…
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…
“Every time we try, we get killed”: Confronting torture in the DRC
By Tracy DoigDecember 5, 2018 Original A new report documents widespread abuses by the Congolese government against ordinary citizens. Things may get worse as elections approach. In the last few years, there have been several…
Xolobeni an important victory in a long struggle
On the one side there are big mining companies and politicians who are interested in exploiting the resources of the land and on the other side there are communities and natural habitats which are threatened…
Big boost in jobs in renewable energy sector worldwide with 10-million now employed
Sipho Kings29 May 2017 original Nearly 10-million people worldwide were employed in the renewable energy sector in 2016, double the number of people working on building solar and wind power generation five years ago. The…
Why perovskite solar cells are so efficient
April 25, 2018, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Solar cells with efficiencies above 20% and produced at low costs – perovskites make this possible. Now, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have gained fundamental insight…