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Thinking about the Anthropocene from the Global South

Mineral council denies mines are Covid-19 hotspots

Despite evidence that communities around mines are infection epicentres, the Mineral Council of South Africa is scrambling to ‘shape the message’ by fudging the numbers.

Mining communities bear the burden of disease

Despite a court order, residents near mines were ignored when Covid-19 guidelines were drawn up. Now the virus devastates the very people made vulnerable by their operations.

Freedom of expression at stake in judgment over mining company’s Slapp suit

Mineral Sands Resources pursues defamation cases seemingly to intimidate individuals into silence

Miners’ lives are cheap compared with rising metal prices

Before Covid-19 the mortality rate among former miners in SA was 20% higher than in the general population

What does it mean to ‘forge a new economy’?

We all need to participate in imagining how we mesh together, not just the economists

Big talk but little action on illicit financial flows

The political problem of illicit financial flows

Protecting our common resources

The limits of private ownership of ‘The Commons’

SA must act urgently to exit group of climate-change pariahs

Climate Change and Democracy

At one level, whites are indeed responsible for cyclone Idai

Who is responsible for Climate Change?

Eco-Anxiety and Hope – what to do instead of waiting for extinction

Are we doomed or is there hope?

St Lucia, Xolobeni and the problem of wilderness

The Xolobeni struggle and ideas of ‘Wilderness’

Education and health needs should trump coal in the budget

How to better spend the R20 billion being wasted on new coal

Mantashe needs to ask what kind of development Xolobeni wants

Xolobeni and ‘development’ – who gets to choose?

Pursuit of coal-fired stations raises the same questions as nuclear deal

Who stands to gain from new coal in South Africa?

Mining Charter unclear on benefits for mining-affected communities

The Mining Charter and Mining Communities

The lowest carbon emitter? No, it’s not, Mr Energy Minister

Is nuclear power the lowest carbon emitter?

Important questions of safety the pro-nuclear lobby dare not ignore

Is nuclear power safe?

Going green a drop in the ocean of change needed to fix climate crisis

This piece explores the problems with green consumerism

How SA’s nuclear plant build could fuel corruption

Megaprojects and corruption

Tegeta scandal report gives whiff of global rot in nuclear industry

A piece about how corruption and nuclear power plant construction go hand-in-hand

Pro-nuclear lobby still fired up on deal despite court’s refusal

Rosatom and nuclear power in South Africa

Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act

Could cutting meat from your diet be revolutionary?

Job Growth promises are in Green Economy

Will nuclear power provide the new jobs that its proponets claim?

Eskom Seems Compromised in Nuclear Deal

Has the Eskom Board been captured?

Eskom Lacks Nuclear Wherewithal

Can Eskom really finance the nuclear procurement off its own balance sheet?

Where Will SA Put Lethal Nuclear Waste?

This piece explores the problem of nuclear waste in South Africa

The Nuclear Slippery Slope

An opinion piece that examines the financial costs of nuclear power

Keeping the Public in the Dark

An opinion piece about how secrecy and nuclear power go hand in hand

Gwede Mantashe’s answers over solar heaters highlights gross state incompetence

Taxpayers’ money recklessly wasted due to indifference, lack of planning and failed governance model

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