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Government’s desperation for shale gas placing South Africa at risk
21st September 2023 At the recent Southern African Oil and Gas Conference held in Cape Town, Dr Bongani Sayidini from the Petroleum Agency of South Africa announced... →
#ACS23: Verifying Kenyan president William Ruto’s claims at Africa’s first climate summit 
By: Africa Check 21st September 2023 Kenyan president William Ruto hosted the Africa Climate Summit in the capital Nairobi in September, the first of its kind in the region. Despite... →
Jagersfontein Catastrophe: One Year Later, No Findings from SAHRC and Inaction by Government
19th September 2023 ActionSA has written to South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) requesting an update on the complaint lodged on the 29th of September 2022 by... →
Flames destroy landmark tower as Sudan war enters sixth month
By: Reuters 18th September 2023 One of Sudan's main landmarks, a skyscraper that towered over the River Nile and housed the headquarters of a major oil company, has been reduced... →
Happening in Parliament this week
11th September 2023 The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) provincial week oversight visits, a physical National Assembly (NA) plenary sitting to consider the... →
De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd v Regional Manager, Limpopo: The Department of Mineral Resources & Energy and Others (66559/2020) [2023] ZAGPPHC 1111
8th September 2023 Click here to read the full judgment on Saflii [1] Mining and the extraction of mineral and other natural resources is an economic... →
Kenya vs South Africa? Fact-checking claims about the two countries’ contrasting economic paths
By: Africa Check 7th September 2023 “Everything keeps going right for Kenya as it consolidates its powerhouse status,” reads the headline of an opinion piece published in the Daily... →
Filling the gaps: Examining the procedure to amend a Mining Right under the Mineral and Petroleum, Resources Development Act 28 of 2002
7th September 2023 A significant portion of the transactions that land on the desks of commercial mining attorneys in the Republic of South Africa (“South Africa“)... →
