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Lithium mines in Zimbabwe’s communal areas deprive people of their land rights, grazing land and water. Photo: Madelene Cronjé
BATTERIES

Mining of critical minerals tramples grazing and water rights in Zimbabwe

Laws exist to protect the environment and people, but these are not enforced regarding mining, in particular lithium

  • Hoitsimolimo Mutlokwa
4 min read
DISPOSSESSION

Land Conference delegates: Customary law should limit traditional leaders’ powers

Community activists also urged the government to pass an amended land bill to give them rights to secure their land.

  • Mandisa Makgakga
5 min read
Eskom told the Mail & Guardian it had only received a R9 billion World Bank loan to decommission its coal-fired Komati power station. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
100MW THRESHOLD

Green shoots for energy security, bad news for Eskom’s revenue

Additional energy will take demand pressure off Eskom’s strained supply, but the downside will be a reduction in revenue for the power utility

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read
Nozamile Yaphi’s husband returned home from the mines suffering from TB. They started a suvvessful commercvial farming enterprise which eventually collapsed after he died. She now helps out at a local creche while trying to get compensation for her husband’s occupational disease. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
BLACK BODIES

The gold miners’ widows tell of daily battles for survival

Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines

  • Lucas Ledwaba
15 min read
The murder of Fikile Ntshangase in KwaZulu-Natal was not an isolated incident. Around the globe, from Nigeria to Brazil, environmental activists are similarly being silenced, and it is our duty to continue this struggle. (Oupa Nkosi)
ACTIVISM

The world’s warriors are under attack, but we must keep on fighting

The murder of Fikile Ntshangase in KwaZulu-Natal was not an isolated incident. Around the globe, from Nigeria to Brazil, environmental activists are similarly being silenced, and…

  • Gabriel Klaasen
5 min read
Trump’s tit-for-tat protectionism could deepen the deceleration of global growth and cause volatility in emerging markets
ACID MINE DRAINAGE

State to foot environmental bill for abandoned mines

The department of mineral resources has been left with a R30-billion rehabilitation bill to clean up the damage left by failed mining firms.

  • Sipho Kings
6 min read
BUSINESS

Former mine owners to cough up

Harmony looks to the Constitutional Court to reverse a ruling that cost it millions.

  • Chantelle Benjamin
5 min read