Environment
Mining is destroying crucial Eswatini nature reserve
The mine has the king’s blessing but no environmental authorisation
By Cebelihle Mbuyisa and Dane Armstrong
Feature | 11 June 2024
Environmental activists win against Shell in appeal court
Shell still has one more shot at seismic exploration authorisation
Law | 3 June 2024
New proposal puts Kruger National Park’s environmental safeguards “at risk”
Experts alarmed by government move to drop statutory requirements for some developments in the park
By John Yeld
News | 31 May 2024
Strandfontein development could make critically endangered butterfly extinct
The only colony of one of the world’s most endangered butterflies is within sight of a large, multi-storey development
News | 24 May 2024
Sewage pollutes KwaZulu-Natal’s popular south coast lagoons
None of the 19 sewage treatment plants managed by the Ugu District Municipality are properly treating sewage released into rivers and lagoons
News | 15 May 2024
Remote Namaqualand diamond town battles dust and neglect
Mine told to fix the pollution problem
By Liezl Human
News | 9 May 2024
Coal mine accused of making “manifestly scurrilous” allegations against opponents
A coalition against mining in the Mabola Protected Environment want “scandalous” and “irrelevant” claims struck from court record
By John Yeld
News | 8 May 2024
Families to leave ancestral lands as coal mine expands
Land Claims Court orders Mpumalanga mine to build them permanent houses
News | 3 May 2024
Village activists take Marikana mining company to court
Tharisa Mines is trying to gag us, say Oridile Kgatea and Rodney Kotsedi
Law | 1 May 2024