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The living nightmare of environmental activists who protest mine expansion

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Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live with every day
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Alarm bells ring over activist death toll

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A new Global Witness report has revealed that environmental activists were killed at the rate of more than two a week in 2011.
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Report: Mugabe’s loyalists squirrelling diamond money

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Global Witness has said mining officials loyal to President Robert Mugabe are stashing profits from Zimbabwe's diamond fields off shore.
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Angola’s top officials reap the cream

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Lobby groups want multinational companies to stand against a government that bends the rules.
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Kimberley Process left in the lurch over diamond dispute

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Global Witness has left the Kimberley Process after a series of disagreements, including the resumption of sales of Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds.
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Zim to get huge diamond boost but activists irate

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Zimbabwe could earn billions of dollars selling diamonds from an area scarred by abuse after a crisis that left the "blood diamond" watchdog tattered.
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Zim rulers running diamond trade with ‘corruption, violence’

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Zimbabwe's political and military leaders have used violence and intimidation to seize control of the country's lucrative diamond business.
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Call for Zim to scrap sale of blood diamonds

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A rights group on Wednesday called on Zimbabwe to abandon plans to sell "blood diamonds" from a field plagued by abuses.
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Global Witness condemns use of ‘conflict minerals’

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The watchdog group Global Witness on Monday urged cellphone manufacturers to beware of "conflict minerals" being used in their products.
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Pay-TV inquiry probes the Multichoice monopoly

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Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

Covid-overflow hospital in ruins as SIU investigates

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A high-level probe has begun into hundreds of millions of rand spent by the Gauteng health department to refurbish a hospital that is now seven months behind schedule – and lying empty

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

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Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre

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