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Thinking about the Anthropocene from the Global South

Protected areas need not pit humans against nature

The ever-increasing capitalist onslaught on protected environments will be stopped only if we fundamentally change the way we conceptualise their value and purpose.

Insanitary tradition of fouling Cape Town’s seas

A look at the history of sewage outfalls in the bays around the city shows that residents have been complaining since the first one was completed in 1905. And as now, their concerns were ignored.

Budget reallocation puts the lie to ANC’s pro-poor claims

The government’s recent budget cuts have shown that it prioritises the punted nuclear build over connecting thousands of residents in impoverished communities to the electricity grid.

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

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

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