The Federation for a Sustainable Environment is meeting with community leaders to arrange environmental workshops. Preparatory meetings with community leaders are underway, including a recent meeting with the Councilor for the Kagiso Constituency, namely Magaret Mohube and Headmistress of the Munsieville Primary School. The purpose of the environmental workshops is to raise environmental awareness of […]
Saving Joburg from the poison flood
A decade. That’s how long Mariette Liefferink has known about the radioactive water under Johannesburg and its neighbouring mining towns – and how long she has been lobbying to have something done about it.
Joburg’s acid mine drainage: Swapping sludge for salt
More than two years since government started to care about acid mine drainage, it has been working with key stakeholders to address the ugly sludge of an issue. The response, however, has only scratched the surface while creating other problems, such as putting the river systems at enormous risk. Though the issue might be water […]
Mining the Pilanesberg
49 000 hectares of big five game reserve only two hours from Jo’burg… The Pilanesberg National Park is one of the top tourist destinations in the country. Derek Watts (Carte Blanche presenter): “And then a plan to make it even bigger and better, a corridor from here in the Pilanesberg linking this big five reserve […]
Blue Scorpions hit mine on plan to flood pit in reserve
Die Blou Skerpioene het verlede week toegeslaan op Platmin, wat ‘n reuse-oopgroefmyn in ‘n beoogde erfenis-gebied op die voorstoep van die Pilanesberg-natuurreservaat bedryf.
Blou Skerpioene bekyk reuse-myn
Die Blou Skerpioene het verlede week toegeslaan op Platmin, wat ‘n reuse-oopgroefmyn in ‘n beoogde erfenis-gebied op die voorstoep van die Pilanesberg-natuurreservaat bedryf.
Platmin charged for threatening nature reserves
An environmental NGO has laid criminal charges against mining group Platmin for operating an open cast mine on the doorstep of the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve, Beeld reported on Monday.
NGO lays criminal charges against mining group Platmin
An environmental NGO has laid criminal charges against mining group Platmin for operating an open cast mine on the doorstep of the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve, Beeld reported on Monday.
Small victory in blighted mining landscape
Mariette Liefferink’s red high-heeled sandals sink into the watery earth. She totters to a mining pit overflowing with copper water that is stained like blood. That this is filled with partially treated acid mine drainage (AMD) is a small victory for the environmental activist.
AngloGold faces water spillage charge
Johannesburg – Gold producer AngloGold Ashanti [JSE:ANG] has been charged with contaminating water in Stilfontein by the Federation for Sustainable Environment, a report said on Wednesday.