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South Africa

• Blue and Green Drop Project Report 2024

  The 2024 blue drop results show an alarming increase in unsafe municipal drinking water, with 13% of blue drop tests across the country that point to unsafe drinking water. The drinking water of 28 towns

  • 04/12/2024

  • Afriforum
  • • South Africa
    • Water Supply
    • Sewage
    • Sewage Treatment Plants (STP)
    • Drinking Water
    • Water Quality

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  Mineworkers in South Africa demand safety rights

  Thousands of mineworkers downed tools in South Africa on December 4 in a strike, demanding better safety in mines. The strike was called by the National Union of Mineworkers (num) after three

  • 30/12/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Occupational Safety
    • South Africa

• Concerns over smuggling of Zimbabwean rough diamonds to South frica

  The World Diamond Council has expressed concerns over reports that rough diamonds from Zimbabwe are being smuggled into South Africa for sale into the world market under fraudulent

  • 30/01/2007

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Trade
    • Conflicts
    • Human Rights
    • War
    • Liberia
    • South Africa
    • Zimbabwe

• SOUTH AFRICA

  The latest furore in South Africa is over the Cloudy Creek or Rietspruit wetland on the south bank of the Vaal river. The Sasol Chemical Industries wants to strip mine the area for coal as

  • 29/06/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Wetlands
    • Mining
    • Displacement
    • Wildlife
    • South Africa
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  South Africa

  Imagine yourself enjoying the exhilaration of an African safari in the comforts of your living room. With a state-of-the-art Internet facility, it is now possible for animal lovers to view live the

  • 14/11/1999

  • Down To Earth
  • • Wildlife
    • National Parks
    • Information
    • South Africa
    • Internet

• SOUTH AFRICA

  An us7owned vanadi'u'm mine in Vametco in tfie North West province seems to be doing a repeat of the Bhopal gas tragedy. Inhabitants of the villages of Mothutlung which has a population of

  • 14/03/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Occupational Health
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  Once considered to be the backbone of the country's economy, gold mines have become a health hazard for mineworkers. Thousands of mineworkers in the country could be suffering from serious chest

  • 14/08/1996

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Gold
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  Dented by the Congo rebellion, renewed fighting in Angola, failed privatisation plans in Zambia and slumping metal prices, mining investors are singing the blues. Long-term prospects are not so

  • 29/09/1998

  • Down To Earth
  • • Mining
    • Economy
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  When Mozambique fought a war of independence in 1975, its elephant population was over 60,000. When the war ended in 1992, there were only 15,000 left. The story is the same in many African

  • 30/03/2000

  • Down To Earth
  • • Endangered Species
    • Wildlife
    • War
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  South African President, Nelson Mandela, recently called upon the global community to act together to wipe out aids, which is wreaking havoc on nations all over the world. "As the freedom of each

  • 14/03/1997

  • Down To Earth
  • • Health
    • AIDS
    • South Africa

• SOUTH AFRICA

  One of the main causes of pollution in South Africa is plastic packaging, says a recent study. The Water Research Commission and the Cape Metropolitan Council conducted a four-year study into the

  • 14/08/2001

  • Down To Earth
  • • Environment
    • Plastics
    • Waste Disposal
    • South Africa