South Africa’s energy minister has been exhorting African states to develop their oil and gas reserves while ignoring the historical realities, and future impacts, of doing so.
Category: Mining
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
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
Mining Charter unclear on benefits for mining-affected communities
The Mining Charter and Mining Communities
African Anthropocene 