Environment
Damning report on Eskom air pollution
Coal-fired plants breached legal emission levels 3,200 times in 21 months
By John Yeld
News | 26 February 2019
Wastewater audit missing as countrywide water shortage looms
After reports were sent to cabinet, water test results have not been released for five years
Feature | 25 February 2019
Nasty chemicals are accumulating on Cape Town’s coasts
Drugs, flushed through the sewage system, are ending up in sea-life.
News | 12 February 2019
City fails to publish water quality tests for two years
Public cannot assess effects of sewage disposal in sea
News | 11 February 2019
West Coast mining company fined a “pittance”
Mineral Sands Resources fined R1.25 million for unlawful activities in Lutzville
By John Yeld
News | 6 February 2019
New blow for would-be Mpumalanga coal miner
Surprise move by MEC for Environmental Affairs Vusi Shongwe
By John Yeld
News | 29 January 2019
Court refuses appeal on Mpumalanga coal mine
Company’s bid for permission to mine in protected area blocked
By John Yeld
News | 23 January 2019
Court hears objections to new N2 highway
New Wild Coast route shortens road by 75km but passes through ancestral land
By Zoë Postman
News | 4 December 2018
Activists lose bid to stop coal mine
Interdict application to halt operations at the Somkhele coal mine thrown out with costs
By Fred Kockott
Law | 21 November 2018