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On 14 May 2010 the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries published a notice prohibiting the use of chlorpyrifos as an active ingredient in households, home, garden and domestic remedies.
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CAPE TOWN-The long delay in resolving the land claims of dispossessed rural communities had prevented them from exercising their rights to mine the land, the Legal Resources Centre will tell Parliamen...
The task team established to advise the Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu on the proposed heavy minerals mine at Xolobeni on South Africa's Wild Coast has submitted its report and recommendati...
The hearings involving interested parties appealing a decision to grant Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM) a licence to mine heavy minerals from the dunes near Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, scheduled to t...
A NEW round of hearings begins in Durban next week to debate controversial plans for dune mining at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast.
Part of the mining venture by an Australian company and local empowerme...
On 8, 9 and 10 February 2010, the Minerals and Mining Development Board will receive oral submissions on behalf of interested parties involved in the appeal against the Minister's decision to grant a ...
The mineral rights expropriation case that two Italian granite mining companies have brought against government might be settles before the case goes to the Hague in mid-April.
Mineral resources dir...
Environmental disaster flowing from the West Rand
Untreated acid mine water is currently flowing uncontrollably out of an old mine ventilation shaft on the West Rand, near Randfontein. The water is ...
Years of digging for gold at Anglo-American mines have left Zonesele Blom with an incurable lung disease, called silicosis. His health has deteriorated to such a degree that he is no longer fit to wor...
Twenty-four ex-miners are seeking compensation from Anglo-American after contracting silicosis, an incurable and fatal lung disease.
In court papers, the 24 men allege that they contracted silicosis...
Sand dunes will never be the same after heavy minerals have been removed
FOR many people a sand dune is just a sand dune - a great pile of fairly sterile sand particles which can be dug up with b...
Former gold miners who contracted silicosis while working for Anglo American are taking the mining giant to court.
The 24 men, who suffer from the incurable lung disease caused by exposure to silica...
Tens of thousands of goldminers in South Africa have contracted lung diseases because employers failed to protect them from breathing in harmful dust, it was claimed today.
Eighteen former workers w...
Over the past century, the gold mining industry employed up to half a million miners at any one time. A series of major studies on black South African gold miners have found an astronomical rate of si...
On 17 November 2009, at 11 am to 12 pm, a briefing will be held by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), Legal Aid South Africa and leading London law firm Leigh Day at Legal Aid South Africa' offices in ...
ON ASSUMING responsibility for the Department of Trade and Industry, Minister Rob Davies ordered an immediate review of SA's bilateral investment treaties, and his department is now confidentially fas...
News: Innovative Steps are Introduced Into Non-Disputing Party ICSID Procedure In a high-profile arbitration involving mining interests owned by Piero Foresti, Laura de Carli and others versus the Rep...
"Anglo American believes that President Steyn Gold Mining Company, which employed the mineworkers and was responsible for their health and safety, took all reasonable steps to protect them" Statement ...
POLICIES that give effect to the constitution could be threatened by a compensation claim brought against SA by foreign mining companies, say four nongovernmental organisations (NGOs).
The NGOs - in...
SOUTH AFRICAN AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS GRANTED PERMISSION TO INTERVENE IN FOREIGN MINING COMPANIES' COMPLAINT AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT
INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL AGREES ...
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