Posts tagged "South Africa"

Glencore CEO is South Africa’s richest

The Rich List has been published, showcasing South Africa’s wealthiest business men and women. Topping the list for 2011 Ivan Glasenberg from Swiss-based, London-listed Glencore International, who has an estimated net worth of R61.48 billion.…
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Sick miners want Anglo American to pay up

Mongezi Mponco left his village of grassland hills as one of hundreds of thousands of healthy young black men who poured into the deep underground of South Africa’s gold mines.

The 54-year-old continued working when …
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Who needs coal? Who needs nuclear?

It seems to be a  “Hobson’s choice” par excellence! As global climate change talks continued in Durban, South Africa’s leadership was faced with a “conundrum” – does the country continue burning-up the world by depending …
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Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo

Silent Protest Held in Support of Communities of Limpopo

Gaia Foundation press release, Thursday 15th December 2011

Yesterday in Central London a silent protest took place outside the General Meeting of Shareholders of Australian mining company, Coal of Africa Ltd (CoAL). The protest was …
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Civil society groups demand global corporations reconsider investment in Coal of Africa mining project.

Yesterday, civil society groups and community members from the Limpopo Province of South Africa sent a letter to over fifty shareholders and potential investors of Coal of Africa (CoAL) demanding that they reconsider their plans …
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CoAL faces community wrath over water

Just as concerned citizens of South Africa mobilise around the international Climate Conference in Durban (COP-17), several communities, supported by NGOs, are battling to save a critical part of Limpopo province from the threat of …
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South Africa’s gold miners denied access to silicosis checks

A lawyer for hundreds of former South African gold miners has accused their ex-employers of failing to provide access to regular check-ups for silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by inhaling dust.

Richard Meeran of …
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Mining’s toxic sludge threatens Johannesburg

Thousands of people face evacuation from greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province – the economic heartland of South Africa – due to toxic sludge from abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation levels.

See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=11315
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World’s Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark

South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the continent’s 900 million people. …
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Colombia mining projects delayed over environmental issues

Colombia’s foreign-led Angostura and La Colosa mining projects have been delayed due to environmental concerns. Angostura is owned by Eco Oro, formerly Greystar, a Canadian company listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). …
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‘Our suffering is for ever’, mined-out town tells De Beers in South Africa

Residents of Hondeklipbaai, a small community in coastal northwest South Africa, has lodged a land claim against the world’s largest diamond mining company, Anglo-De Beers.

The community is angered that the company has reneged on …
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Alaska voters say no to gold, copper mine

Can a small local government hold back a large-scale development, despite much bigger political and corporate forces being ranged against it?

That’s the question facing voters in Southwest Alaska’s Lake & Peninsula Borough who last …
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