Taxpayers’ money recklessly wasted due to indifference, lack of planning and failed governance model
Category: energy
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.
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
SA must act urgently to exit group of climate-change pariahs
Climate Change and Democracy
