At a remote spot far up the West Coast amongst a dazzling display of spring flowers, 20 top South African surfers took part in the Experience Northern Cape Namakwa Challenge, the first professional surfing event in South Africa since Covid
A Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) may be permanently moored in St Helena Bay as part of the South African government’s plans to expand oil and gas exploration, extraction and infrastructure under the the umbrella of its ‘Operation Phakisa’
Yesterday, a group of activists from the environmental group Protect The West Coast (PTWC) conducted a peaceful protest to challenge the mining of beaches at the Tormin mine near Brand se Baai on the Cape West Coast. They also handed
Newly-formed South African environmental NPC, Protect The West Coast, celebrates legal ruling against Australian-owned mining company’s ‘SLAPP’ defamation suits. CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Tuesday, March 2, 2021 A legal ruling in early February against both Western Australian mining company,
By Tony Carnie for the Daily Maverick • 10 February 2021 An Australian mining magnate has been dealt a bruising legal smackdown by the South African legal system which he sought to ‘weaponise’, seemingly to bully and silence lawyers and
By Miles Masterson for the Daily Maverick • 9 January 2021 Long stretches of pristine coastline are being affected by mining enterprises. So surfer Mike Schlebach and others have formed an organisation to protect the area’s beaches, dunes and biodiversity.
By John Yeld for GroundUp • 9 December 2020 Sea is so dark with sediment “we can’t even dive with lights” Diamond divers have warned of damage to the seabed and inshore reef systems from “coffer dams” on the West
By John Yeld for GroundUp • 12 November 2020 Environmentalists are challenging the massive expansion of Tormin mineral sands beach mining on the West Coast. The South African government is facing a high court challenge that goes to the heart
By John Yeld for GroundUp • 1 April 2020 Environment minister rejects most of the appeals against Tormin expansion plans Environment Minister Barbara Creecy has dismissed most of the appeals against last year’s approval of vastly expanded beach mining operations
By John Yeld for GroundUp • 3 December 2019 Controversial Australian company applies for further prospecting rights The future of one of South Africa’s most important biodiversity areas – the Olifants River estuary on the West Coast near Lutzville –
By John Yeld for GroundUp • 15 July 2019 Environmental and activist groups appeal decision Government has given Australian-owned Tormin mine the go-ahead to vastly expand its current extraction of mineral sands on ten additional West Coast beaches and on
