Keywords: Environmental Rights Content: Articles Page: 1 of 27 Items: 268
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...