A poetic, genre-blurring film, Variations on a Theme excavates ancestral grief, memory and forgotten histories in a Northern Cape community still waiting for justice
A new University of Cape Town study has found elevated mortality among former asbestos miners in South Africa, highlighting the long-term health consequences of asbestos exposure…
The latest Green, Blue and No Drop reports show widespread deterioration of water and sanitation infrastructure. Nearly half of wastewater systems are critical, drinking water…
The acting police minister also stressed the need to tackle organised crime, which President Cyril Ramaphosa last week singled out as ‘the most immediate threat to our democracy,…
Long-term leases turn public land into corporate profit, but it’s not clear how these deals are structured and whether communities are seeing their s
Officials said South Africa’s phytosanitary and biosecurity requirements are world class and the department is awaiting bilateral trade agreements to be resolved to begin exports…
With vast deposits of minerals that make South Africa a key player in the green energy transition, Andiswa Matikinca investigates the future that stakeholders want to see
A Northern Cape wind project provides a model on how South Africa can implement a sustainable renewable energy programme
It’s an opportunity to formalise strategic relationships with key partners in the province for continuous WRC support
SAPS says it has heightened visible policing over the Heritage Day weekend
Umsobomvu municipality pleads guilty, admits to receiving complaints from as far back as 2017
The continent is rich in metals for the energy transition such as cobalt, copper, nickel, graphite, graphite vanadium and platinum group metals
Criminal charges have been filed against the municipal managers of a number of towns for polluting the Vaal and Orange rivers
The mineral resources and energy minister appears reluctant to defend himself in court
The bad news headlines may be true but the good news is often overlooked
Illegal miners, who have been fighting to get mining permits, risk arrest and even death in confrontations between the police and security firms
Children in the Northern Cape leave school to dig for the gemstones, which, for many households, is a way of survival
The 90 detainees are among 110 people held by police at abandoned mining sites in the Namakwa district.
But the new artisanal and small-scale mining policy may be a turning point for informal prospectors who want to mine legally
“I’m willing to take a bullet” says Northern Cape natives who claim the land, and its diamonds, belong to them.
