Search results

Keywords: Xolobeni  Content: Articles  Page: 3 of 9  Items: 89

Advanced Search

Groundbreaking court judgment on mining and community rights

22 September 2020 | ARTICLE

By Geoffrey Allsop

...Xolobeni, a remote area in rural Eastern Cape, has been a battleground over mining rights. Archive photo: Thembela Ntongana The Umgungundlovu community, located in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has wo...

Case brought by Aussie miners is “an abuse of legal process” say defendants

11 June 2020 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni in Pondoland for more than a decade, and has also been operating a mineral sands mine, Tormin, on West Coast beaches near Lutzville since 2014 through the subsidiary MSR. Between them, the pl...

Defamation case aims to censor activists, says Budlender

10 June 2020 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni in Pondoland for more than a decade, and has also been operating a mineral sands mine, Tormin, on West Coast beaches near Lutzville since 2014 through the subsidiary MSR. Between them, the pl...

R14m defamation case between Australian miners and critics will make legal history

8 June 2020 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni in Pondoland for more than a decade, and has also been operating a mineral sands mine, Tormin, on West Coast beaches near Lutzville since 2014 through the subsidiary MSR. Between them, the pl...

Mounting pressure on families holding out against coal mine expansion

3 June 2020 | ARTICLE

By Fred Kockott and Matthew Hattingh

...Xolobeni Minerals Sands Project, the High Court ruled that the minister for mineral resources had to obtain full and formal consent from the Xolobeni community in the Eastern Cape before granting mini...

“New broom” minister Barbara Creecy raises dust

8 April 2020 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape. The CER was one of three appellants whose arguments against the expanded mining were rejected by Creecy. The appeal process had revealed “significant prejudice” and it wa...

Information on mining applications should be public, Xolobeni activists tell court

11 February 2020 | ARTICLE

By Zoë Postman

...Xolobeni, a village in the Eastern Cape, through its subsidiary Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM). Judge Tintswalo Nana Makhubele was presiding over the hearing. According to CALS, in 2015 the Umgu...

Aussie company show big profits from South African West Coast mine

13 June 2019 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni anti-mining activist Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe. MRC ​​​​is hoping to extract titanium from coastal dunes at Xolobeni in Transkei. The company earned after-tax profit of R130 million from m...

Shareholders force board shake-up in Aussie mining company

7 June 2019 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni through another subsidiary, Transworld Energy & Mineral Resources. Currently, Caruso, MRC, MSR and one of its black empowerment partners, are collectively suing six South African lawyers ...

Court blow for activists being sued by mining company

31 May 2019 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni – for alleged defamatory statements.