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Intersectional protest: Members of Extinction Rebellion and Red Rebels, as well as other local Cape Town environmental action groups, mobilised outside parliament last Friday, calling for climate action and environmental justice. (David Harrison/M&G)
AMADIBA

Concourt hears landmark ‘Slapp’ defamation and free speech case

The case isn’t only about environmental lawyers and activists being slapped by ‘rapacious’ miners with a series of defamation lawsuits, but about the rule of law

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
A community member of Xolobeni exclaims that she will not allow mining in her area to celebration of her neighbours. (Paul Botes, M&G)
MINERAL COMMODITIES

We will die for our land, say angry Xolobeni villagers as dune mining looms

As leaders clash and government weighs an application for mining on the Wild Coast, anti-mining locals report a fresh outbreak of violence.

  • Tariro Washinyira
20 min read