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Appeal court blocks Eskom’s giant Richards Bay power plant

18 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Tania Broughton

...environmental approval process. The court set aside the environmental authorisation issued in December 2019 by the chief director of integrated environmental authorisations in the Department of Forest...

Activists march against Shell’s oil exploration

16 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Ihsaan Haffejee and Thamsanqa Mbovane

...environmental threats from fossil fuel exploration. Protesters carried banners and placards, some which read, “We cannot eat oil and gas,” and “To hell with Shell.” Wild Coast communities and environ...

Shell’s Wild Coast seismic blasting case goes to the Concourt

12 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Tania Broughton

...environmental groups are challenging. Wild Coast communities argue the court order perpetuates illegality and violates their constitutional rights to food, livelihoods and cultural practices. Shell cl...

Dump site fire leaves Maseru residents in choking smoke for days

11 September 2025 | ARTICLE

By Sechaba Mokhethi

...environmentally acceptable. It promised a new landfill at Tšoeneng – plans first drafted in 2005 but stalled ever since. The ministry now says a R400-million phased project is being designed, includin...

Court blocks TotalEnergies oil exploration from Cape Agulhas to Cape Town

14 August 2025 | ARTICLE

By Liezl Human

...environmental authorisation for a TotalEnergies’ offshore oil and gas exploration project. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks The Western Cape High Court has set aside the environmental authorisation fo...

Protests against Germany and Glencore mark Namibian Genocide Remembrance Day

29 May 2025 | ARTICLE

By Matthew Hirsch and Ihsaan Haffejee

...environmental justice organisations, trade unions and mining affected communities. Protesters claim that Glencore’s supply of coal to Israel is powering its energy infrastructure and enabling the cont...

Battle looms over abalone quota

13 May 2025 | ARTICLE

By Liezl Human

...rights will be allocated to the small-scale fishing sector” or what the potential quota would be. Since the early 2000s, about 300 commercial abalone fishers have been allocated abalone fishing rights...

New report describes how coal pollution is harming Highveld

25 April 2025 | ARTICLE

By Kimberly Mutandiro and Liezl Human

...Environmental activists at groundWork published a report on the problems facing communities living near coal mines in the Highveld. Despite a 2012 court order Carolina residents are still struggling w...

Major legal battle looms over Stellenbosch luxury estate

23 April 2025 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...environmental authorisations by the Western Cape government and the Stellenbosch municipality. Key among these is SIG’s challenge to an amended environmental authorisation (EA) granted on 18 February ...

Court halts further work on luxury Stellenbosch mountain estate

17 April 2025 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...rights. “Where constitutional rights are in issue, the balance of convenience favours the protection of those rights. “I am of the view that in all the circumstances, the balance of convenience favour...