Category: Opinion

Parliament wants to meet Zulu king over Ingonyama Trust Board crisis

By Paddy Harper Parliament’s land reform portfolio committee wants to meet King MisuZulu ka Zwelithini to resolve the “crisis” caused by the breakdown in relations between him and the Ingonyama Trust Board (ITB).

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Southern Palladium bets on platinum’s future: new mine planned despite market pressures

By Ed Stoddard This is a fairly rare project for the Australian-listed company to undertake, but looming supply deficits mean the timing could be perfect.

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Confronting the legacy of deceased miners in unmarked graves

by Ramabina Mahapa During much of the 20th century many SA mineworkers who died on duty were buried informally, often without appropriate ceremony, on the mine’s properties by their colleagues or hired diggers.

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South Africa’s Unanswered Land Question

By Katlego Ramantsima and Refiloe Joala South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. To this day, it has shocking levels of poverty and unemployment. This inequality is starkly apparent in the country’s pervasive Apartheid landscape, where overcrowded informal settlements and townships lie next to leafy suburbs and sprawling, almost exclusively …

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Will the proposed GNU deliver on the land question?

By Sunday World A significant protest by land rights activists went by without much fanfare in Polokwane on the night of June 18. While the eyes, ears and minds of South Africans were focused on the outcomes of the government of national unity talks, a group of activists staged a peaceful night vigil at the …

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