Tormin accused of breaching environmental licence
By Glenn Ashton
Analysis | 20 October 2016
Race and class still dominate environmental politics
By Saliem Fakir
Opinion | 20 September 2016
And you can take part too!
By Fred Kokott
News | 1 September 2016
Drought has left dams very low but the City is taking steps to secure the future water supply
By Rejul Bejoy
Feature | 8 June 2016
Five years after a clean-up was launched there is progress, but not everywhere
Feature | 3 March 2016
App connects fishers, scientists and fishery management
By Ashleigh Furlong and Masixole Feni
Feature | 24 February 2016
We will die for our land, say angry Xolobeni villagers as dune mining looms
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Paul Botes (with permission of the Mail & Guardian)
News | 12 February 2016
Illegal dumping costs Cape Town R350 million a year
News | 28 January 2016
Activists have accused government officials of turning a blind eye to a pattern of environmental violations at the Tormin dune mine on the West Coast – including a “catastrophic” cliff collapse – after state departments failed to act on a string of letters, objections and a formal appeal.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
Feature | 11 December 2015
Police cases against three Tormin mine managers, one of whom was accused of driving into and knocking over a mineworker during a strike, have all been withdrawn.
Barbara Maregele
Feature | 11 December 2015
Like others in Sobantu township where she lives, 42-year-old Nokhukhanya Myeza wakes up at 5am and dresses for work. But while others put on their best clothes, Myeza gets into old sneakers, torn jeans and an old T-shirt, and walks to the New England Landfill dump site in Pietermaritzburg to search and pick up food.
Ntombi Mbomvu
News | 16 November 2015
Plans to grow vegetables on school land, with voluntary gardeners from the homeless in the city, and using water from Table Mountain that otherwise goes to waste, are at an advanced stage says Jessie Khulisa, strategic partnership manager at Khulisa Social Solutions (KSS).
Bernard Chiguvare
News | 6 November 2015
A gyrocopter overflying the embattled MSR Tormin mine near the remote West Coast town of Vredendal was shot at last month, according to a witness who reported the alleged incident to the local police.
Mary-Anne Gontsana
News | 6 November 2015
Representatives of the Amadiba community in the Eastern Cape have accused Australian company Mineral Commodities, part owner of the Tormin mine on the West Coast, of lying to its shareholders.
GroundUp Staff with AmaBhungane
News | 6 November 2015
The recent furore over the lawyers in the huge silicosis court case focused on race, but the real issue is how lawyers advance the cause of justice, argue Pasika Nontshiza and John Clarke.
Pasika Nontshiza and John GI Clarke
Opinion | 23 October 2015
If the court did not decide in favour of the gold miners in the silicosis case, hundreds of thousands of sick miners and their families would not be heard, advocates for the mineworkers told the Gauteng High Court yesterday.
Pete Lewis
News | 23 October 2015