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St Lucia fishers take government to court
14 January 2026 | ARTICLE
By Barry Christianson
...rights … When the law grants people wide powers to limit rights, it must also ensure that those powers are properly exercised,” Michelle Joshua, co-director of Masifundise, wrote in her affidavit for ...
Kimberley’s big hole of municipal failure
10 December 2025 | ARTICLE
By Steve Kretzmann
...environmental pollution, the loss of potential jobs and revenue, and a threat to human health. But this is just one of the municipality’s failures. Finances, water supply, waste management, and commun...
Kimberley: A provincial capital sunk in sewage
1 December 2025 | ARTICLE
By Steve Kretzmann
...Environmental Affairs, Land Reform and Rural Development responded to GroundUp’s questions on the matter. Kimberley resident and DA MP Delmaine Christians said some of the 26 affected families were ac...
Maseru dump site to be closed after community goes to court
28 November 2025 | ARTICLE
By Sechaba Mokhethi
...rights to a clean and healthy environment. Court papers detailed how families were being “literally choked” by plumes of smoke, had to endure bad odours, and live at constant risk of airborne, waterbo...
Fight over tourism development in the Cederberg
22 October 2025 | ARTICLE
By John Yeld
...environmental authorisation. The provincial Department of Environmental Affairs fined Kok R625,000 but later reduced this to R125,000, citing his membership of the Cederberg Conservancy as one of the ...
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...