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Sikho Luthango

Sikho Luthango is a public policy analyst and a programme manager at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

A Malian gold panner coming out of an underground mine at an artisanal gold mining site in Sadiola (north-western Mali). (Photo by: Amadou Keita/Afrikimages Agency/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
CSDDD AND MINING SUPPLY CHAINS

EU’s human rights and environment directive could do more to protect Africa’s mining affected communities

The regulation of supply chains aims to deter child and labour violations, as well as pollution, deforestation and damage to ecosystems

  • Sikho Luthango
8 min read
The City of Johannesburg has recorded an increase in illegal mining activities, which include tunnelling on the road reserve, below road surfaces and excavations of bridge embankments in recent years. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
ENVIRONMENT

Communities weigh up environmental harm with ‘social’ benefits when it comes to mining licences

Mines offer jobs and promise other benefits, but people are increasingly more concerned about the harm mining does to the land, air and water on which they depend

  • Sikho Luthango
8 min read
Protestors at the Waterfront waiting the arrival of the Amazon Warrior . They are against the planned Shell seismic survey for oil and gas in the ocean on November 21, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa. It is reported that Shell has announced that it will carry out a three-dimensional seismic survey in search of oil and gas deposits from Morgan Bay to Port St Johns off the Wild Coast. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
COURT INTERDICT

OPINION| Due diligence needs to be more than a box-ticking exercise

Voluntarism is not enough to ensure that transnational companies such as Shell consult people likely to be affected by their proposed activities

  • Sikho Luthango
8 min read