A South African judge has declared invalid the 2016 extension of a mining right to allow Tendele Coal Mining Pty. to expand one of the country’s largest coal operations. Examining a trail of deficient public consultation procedures stretching back to 2013, Judge Noluntu Bam found that the owners of the Somkhele open-cast mine in KwaZulu-Natal […]
Daily Maverick recently published an article ‘Remembering Fikile Ntshangase, a fearless environmental activist’ which commemorated the first anniversary of her death. The article carried a critical factual error that we would like to correct and provide some context. Daily Maverick recently.
Against a backdrop of murder, intimidation and deep divisions in a rural Zululand community, a major court battle started and then faltered in the Pretoria High Court on 6 October. It’s a case that could determine the fate of one of the country’s largest anthracite coal mines, as well as th.