The projects touted by the mine as beneficial to the community are either dysfunctional or misaligned with the community's developmental needs.
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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…
In a village set up like here, we need people really to be empowered and to be inspired. Most people were just coming to witness what a book launch looks like because it's a very rare occasion in rural areas.
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.
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…
The Land Claims Court of South Africa has ordered that a family that has had their land rights taken away under apartheid be compensated financially…
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…
WE were meant to explore one of the tough hiking trails that form part of the attractions at the Makuya Nature Reserve in far north…