The projects touted by the mine as beneficial to the community are either dysfunctional or misaligned with the community's developmental needs.
Posts published in “Environment”
Since I was born in 1979 water has been a nightmare in our village of Marulaneng. We spend the whole day crowded around one borehole battling to get water. Our bodies ache from pushing around drums of water every day.
It is early morning, and Michael Lokuru Kuri is taking his cattle out to graze as he does every day when the sun rises, to…
Marula traditional beer brewer Lebo Lebese remembers a time of plenty when decades ago the morula trees grew in abundance in her home district of…
The pesticide aldicarb has also been used in the poisoning of dogs by criminals and has also been cited in suicide cases.
Sometimes, a simple solution can make a world of difference. And sometimes that solution comes in an unexpected form. Maimuna Mashalele was forced to flee…
For Liza this project has ignited her passion for farming and she is now trying to break into the commercial coffee market. Liza is learning all about farming and is confident that their coffee beans have a fighting chance in the coffee market.
Locating our struggles for environmental justice and protecting our human rights through forcing mining companies to comply with legal guidelines and to work with communities on the issues concerning our livelihoods within the greater struggle for economic freedom, as poor and rural mine affected communities, is a critical call to action for mobilizing and organizing the youth around understanding the importance of having our voices heard through solidifying our collective power as communities as we’re burdened with the responsibility to carry the baton forward towards realizing socio-economic justice in our lifetime and protecting our homes.
It’s early December yet the landscape on the farms in Onverwacht, near Polokwane in Limpopo, is a dull brown and dry. Red dust rises into…
Nations at COP28 in Dubai approved earlier on Wednesday a roadmap for “transitioning away from fossil fuels” – a first for a UN climate conference…