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