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Set up in 2007 with $10 billion in capital for investment in Chinese business interests in Africa, the fund currently has offices in Zambia, South Africa, and Ethiopia. The Ghana office was opened ...
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The bodies of 76 illegal miners were brought to the surface at the Eland shaft in 2009 following a fire that raged at the mine in the central Free State province. Sibanye Gold is the first company...
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Sweeping illegal sand mining under the rug in Uganda. 2020-08-10. ... and also protects water and land bodies where extraction takes place. To improve sand mining governance, Uganda should fill the legal gaps and properly regulate the market. This could include gazetting mining areas and registering miners to avoid clientelism in issuing ...
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Two more bodies found in trapped miners search A total of eight miners were trapped there by unexpected torrential rain six weeks ago. Anguish as bodies found in trapped miners search, Burkina Faso...
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The Ongoing Disgrace of South Africa's Captive-Bred Lion Trade. An estimated 7,000 to 14,000 lions are held in captivity and bred in South Africa. Increasingly, the animals are slaughtered for their bones and other body parts, many of which are sold in Asia for their purported — and scientifically discredited — health benefits.
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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa's department of mines will not recover the bodies of at least 20 illegal miners presumed dead after a disused gold mine collapsed on them last week, an official said Monday. "The department does not engage in illegal mining.
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By. Press Releases. -. November 12, 2019. 600. With illegal mining now costing the South African economy around R21 billion a year, according to the Institute of Security Studies (ISS), mine owners are under mounting pressure to tighten up security. Add to this increasing violence between competing, heavily armed syndicates and it's a ticking ...
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30 June 2021 Lesotho Times (Maseru) By Nthatuoa Koeshe ELEVEN of out 20 illegal miners, whose bodies were last week discovered at Orkney Mine in South Africa's North West Province, have been...
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The police are also investigating the discovery of four bodies, suspected to be illegal miners, found on the side of a road in Benoni last Tuesday night. TimesLIVE Eleven zama-zamas arrested,...
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In Kwazulu-Natal, illegal gold mining has been reported in the Klipwal, Pongola and Hammarsdale areas. In the Northern Cape, illegal diamond mining activities are dispersed widely throughout the province, including the De Beers and Tweepad sites. In Mpumalanga, illegal mining activities are concentrated around the Barberton area.
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Veteran correspondent Phillips, 57, and Pereira, 41, went missing in a remote part of the rainforest rife with illegal mining, fishing and logging, as well as drug trafficking.
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In South Africa, it is illegal to be in possession of unwrought precious metal ore, platinum group metals (PGMs), gold-bearing material and rough diamonds without the required statutory authorisation. Illegal mining and organised crime are inter-related. Very often, illegal mining is spearheaded by globally connected criminal syndicates.
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Jun 17, 2021Police in South Africa have discovered the bodies of 20 suspected illegal miners near an abandoned goldmine shaft south-west of Johannesburg. Police said in a statement they were investigating the...
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Feb 18, 2014CNN — Six miners who refused to come out of an illegal gold mine in South Africa have been rescued, rescuers from ER24 emergency medical service told CNN on Tuesday. With their rescue, no miners...
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The women were reportedly raped up to ten times each, with the youngest victim aged 19 and the eldest 37. Police arrested 82 men at the mine after the rapes and robbery were reported near the site in the town of Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. The suspects are allegedly illegal miners known as zama-zamas who dig for gold in the Johannesburg ...
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As a result, mining has been marred by violence, with the Marikana Massacre of 2012 being the most recent occurrence where police killed 34 workers and injured 78. Such events are rooted in a strike led by the African Mine Workers' Union in August 1946. Miners of the Witwatersrand were demanding higher pay: an extra 10 shillings a day.
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In South America, the $2.4 billion illegal gold mining industry has been destroying the Amazon and costing dozens of lives. In Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, illegal gold mining operations by private companies have devastated local communities. The operations have left behind pools of cyanide and mercury, twice the size of Olympic swimming pools.
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Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to control their movements. The first time Pass documents were used to restrict the movement of non-European South Africans was in the early 1800's. However, slaves at the Cape had been forced to carry Passes since 1709.
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IPIS estimates that between 75 and 98 percent of the gold crosses the border into Uganda illegally. A man works at an illegal gold refinery that processes gold tailings in Uganda Smuggling the gold...
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As Nomsa Maseko reports, one body has been recovered from the mine The bodies of two illegal miners have been discovered at a disused mine east of Johannesburg in South Africa. The abandoned mine...
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The Consul General of Lesotho says they are embarrassed about their countrymen's involvement in illegal mining activities in South Africa. Selimo Thabane was talking to North West Premier Job Mokgoro ahead of the identification of 10 decomposed bodies at the government mortuary in Klerksdorp.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022. KwaZulu-Natal Social Development MEC, Nonhlanhla Khoza, has commended the police for the arrest of the man accused of the brutal murder of two Grade 12 learners. The two were attacked with an axe while in their rented house at Ngwangwane village in southern KwaZulu-Natal. It is alleged that a man in his 20s came ...
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20 of them were found in possession of tools used for illegal mining. Gauteng Police Commissioner, Elias Mawela, says the aim is the arrest of illegal mining kingpins. At least 10 bodies were ...
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In relation to media during the Apartheid Era, South Africa's media system strive to keep social order with government intervention. Most of the country's media power was concentrated with the Dutch minority that dictated the country's politics and constitutional accountability. The theory of authoritarianism best describes South Africa ...
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The body of an illegal miner lies on the ground after being pulled out at an illegal gold mine in Benoni, outside Johannesburg, on Feb. 18, 2014. (Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images)
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Take action Illegal mining in the Amazon - a threat to local communities' health and livelihoods - continues to advance in the region. Last week, rumours that gold was found in the Madeira River, in the south of the Amazon, caused hundreds of rafts to head to the region, causing panic to those who know how destructive the mining is to the rivers of the Amazon.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The bodies of 10 illegal diamond miners were pulled from a disused mine in South Africa's Northern Cape province, diamond giant De Beers said late on Saturday. De Beers...
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South Africa's government estimates it would require between US$9 billion and US$13 billion to settle new land claims. The proposed law will probably have the greatest impact on commercial farmers, with a presidential spokesperson clarifying that the bill would be applied to agricultural land, not residential property.
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the relative affluence of South Africa in the region makes it an attractive ' emerging market' in its own right (Kibble, 1998; Parry, 1997; Simon 1998). Moreover, there has been a "tradition" of drug consumption in the country. The use of cannabis, known as dagga in South Africa, dates back to the 15h century. Arab as well as Persian and ...
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Another journalist killed in Maharashtra: Sandeep Kothari was waging war against illegal mining in MP A 40-year-old journalist from Madhya Pradesh was allegedly murdered by three persons involved in illegal mining who kidnapped him and set him ablaze apparently over his refusal to withdraw a court case, police said on Sunday.
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Rooted in a deeply set foundation of patriarchal social relations, widespread socioeconomic desperation and poverty and a largely uncaring and dismissive police service, South Africa has been named...
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South Africa's stability and economic growth has acted as a magnet for refugees and asylum seekers from nearby countries, despite the prevalence of discrimination and xenophobic violence. Refugees have included an estimated 350,000 Mozambicans during its 1980s civil war and, more recently, several thousand Somalis, Congolese, and Ethiopians.
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There are profiles of 11 companies including large producers such as Assore, Hotazel and Tshipi e Ntle Manganese, as well as Aquila Steel, which received a mining right for its Gravenhage deposit in the Northern Cape and Kalagadi, which is opposing a business rescue application. Mining of Manganese in South Africa
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Surveyors in South Africa had found astonishing sources of copper in 1854, diamonds in 1867, and gold in the 1880s. For the next few decades, Europeans established mines throughout Africa. In south-central Africa, a chain of major copper mines stretched from what is now Zambia to present-day Congo (Kinshasa).
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Mining continues to be a dangerous activity, whether large-scale industrial mining or small-scale artisanal mining. Not only are there accidents, but exposure to dust and toxins, along with stress from the working environment or managerial pressures, give rise to a range of diseases that affect miners. I look at mining and health from various personal perspectives: that of the ordinary man ...
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Presidency | South Africa (@PresidencyZA) September 15, 2022 He said that at a recent Cabinet lekgotla, they agreed illegal mining was a major risk to the country's security and economy.
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The environmental problems arising due to mining activities are natural land degradation, air and water pollution with heavy metals, organic and inorganic waste, negative impact on terrestrial and ...
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Mine drainage is metal-rich water formed from a chemical reaction between water and rocks containing sulfur-bearing minerals. The resulting chemicals in the water are sulfuric acid and dissolved iron. Some or all of this iron can come out as solids to form the red, orange, or yellow sediments in the bottom of streams containing mine drainage.
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Nineteen-year-old Agrippa Machako recounts the day a 'recruiter' promised him a job as a hotel chef in Johannesburg, South Africa, over 1000 kilometres away from his hometown of Chipinge in Zimbabwe. Today, the teenager's otherwise youthful face and body bears all the scars of the five months he spent toiling as a "gold slave", 200 metres underground in one of Johannesburg's derelict ...
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South African police have launched an investigation into the deaths of 20 men found near an abandoned gold mine in the northwestern province. The bodies, some of which were badly decomposed, were found outside the mine shaft and near the Orkney railways, about 180 km southwest of Johannesburg, according to a statement issued by police on Wednesday.
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