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Catherine Horsfield

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Catherine Horsfield

Catherine Horsfield joined the Centre for Environmental Rights in 2012 and heads up its mining programme, which promotes transparency, public participation and accountability in the mining industry.

Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BIODIVERSITY LOSS

SA needs clear law to protect strategic water source areas

Our government must accelerate efforts to formally protect the zones and introduce the necessary amendments in legislation

  • Catherine Horsfield
  • Tatenda Muponde
6 min read
Avoiding Day Zero: The Enkangala-Drakensbeg Strategic Water Source Area supplies Gauteng among other provinces. The authors argue that a proposed coal mine in Mabola in Mpumalanga will endanger critical water supplies. (Roger de la Harpe/Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The lie of limitless economic progress

We need alternatives because unrestrained development is not compatible with life

  • Catherine Horsfield
  • Neil Overy
8 min read
Steadfast: The Xolobeni residents have, for more than a decade and with deadly consequences for them, fought off an Australian company wanting to mine their land. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CAPITALIST

We don’t have to ‘sell nature to save it’

Although South Africa no longer practices ‘fortress conservation’, the shift to to protecting resources for people is criticised for incorporating nature in a neoliberal…

  • Neil Overy
  • Catherine Horsfield
8 min read