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Only one week before the massacre in Marikana on 16 August last year, Bench Marks Foundation published its report, 'Policy Gap 6'. It was a part of a long series of critical studies of SA mining. It described in detail the social and environmental havoc created by...
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again...
(born 22 October 1936; died 27 August 2012) Neville Edward Alexander meant many specific things to many different people. For the most part of his adult life, he grappled with life's contradictions, its dilemmas, its twists and its beauty as a socialist intellectual...
Chris Webb On August 4, 1946 over one thousand miners assembled in Market Square in Johannesburg, South Africa. No hall in the town was big enough to hold them, and no one would have rented one to them anyway. The miners were members of the African Mine Worker's...
SO, Julius Malema strides confidently into the midst of what we are told is a 7,000-strong band of armed and angry miners, and calms them down. "Malema takes charge!" exclaimed the front page headline of one of the better Sunday papers. Before him all power — the...
av David Van Wyk kl. den 18 augusti 2012 kl. 17:51 · Press statement Bench Marks Foundation Yesterday the President of the SACC and Chairperson of the Bench Marks Foundation, Bishop Jo Seoka and a team, met with the striking Lonmin workers. He was told by the striking...
The Business Report is not a place to trade insults, as Mike Schussler does in his xenophobic piece “Putting data in someone else’s study is untruthful” (4/6). As Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC) we are interested in stimulating a real debate on...
United Nations Environment Programme says global move to low-carbon economy means millions could be lifted from poverty Tens of millions of new jobs can be created around the world in the next two decades if green policies are put in place to switch the high-carbon...
Virtually unknown only a couple of years ago, shale gas has become a very controversial issue. Considered the new oil, thousands of wells have to be drilled and fracked, contaminating millions of litres of water, to extract what is called ‘unconventional gas’. This...