Our Burning Planet

Battle is on to save KZN’s 100-year-old Ndumo Game Reserve from coal and oil shale drilling

By Tony Carnie

Business Maverick

Mpumalanga has become a coveted coal black hole for SA mining applications 

By Ed Stoddard

South Africa

‘Gentleman’s agreement’: Despite mining ban, Russia scours Antarctica for massive fossil fuel deposits

By Tiara Walters

South Africa

Alert sounded over mining prospectors eyeing treasures of last unspoilt strip along Western Cape's west coast

By John Yeld

South Africa

Rock, paper, schisms: Mining and forestry industries draw swords over Zululand titanium mine plans

By Tony Carnie

Business Maverick

After the Bell: Botswana transparently displays what SA’s DMRE may reluctantly provide

By Ed Stoddard

Business Maverick

Director-general Thabo Mokoena steps down from the wreckage that is the DMRE

By Ed Stoddard

South Africa

Western Cape government and scientists appeal national department's approval of West Coast mineral prospecting

By John Yeld for GroundUp

South Africa

Olifants River set to become a new home of mining — to the detriment of residents and the environment as a whole

By Barry Christianson

South Africa

New documentary highlights mining destruction on South Africa’s West Coast

By Julia Evans

South Africa

Heatpocrisy Explained (Part Two): Inside the rich and powerful nexus sizing up Earth’s last unmined frontier

By Tiara Walters

South Africa

Western Cape opposes national government’s mining rights approval

By John Yeld for GroundUp