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 Wonderfonteinspruit 2008
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2008-04-11 |
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NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO 261
DATE OF PUBLICATION IN INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 29 FEBRUARY 2008
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO 5)
261. Mr G R M...
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PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE AND THE WONDERFONTEINSPRUIT
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2008-04-03 |
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Rachel\'s Precaution Reporter #136 "Foresight and Precaution, in the News and in the World" Wednesday, April 2, 2008 RIVER CONTAINS RADIOACTIVITY By Michael Hamlyn Johannesburg -- Government officials have admitted they are worried about th...
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Now it’s a water crisis
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2008-02-18 |
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Radioactive contamination, unsafe dams and waste spills threaten SA, write Bobby Jordan and Marcia Klein
South Africa is on the brink of a water contamination crisis, potentially as bad as the electricity fiasco of the past few weeks.
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THE TIMES - Radioactive substances found in veggies
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2008-02-03 |
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Published: Feb 02, 2008
Radioactive levels three times higher than permitted have been found in vegetables grown in wetlands in the Wonderfontein spruit area between Randfontein and Potch...
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WaterWorld - SOUTH AFRICA ALARM SPREADS AS GOLD MINES POISON RIVERS
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2008-02-03 |
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SOUTH AFRICA: Gold mines accused of poisoning rivers Inter Press Service (December 5, 2007)
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Dec 3, 2007, 2007 (IPS/GIN via COMTEX) -- Gold-mining companies operating to the west of Johannesburg...
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Regstappe kan kom oor myn se megahoop
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2008-01-24 |
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Raatskraal (Fochville). – Boere in dié “onbesoedelde” omgewing dreig met regstappe as Harmony Gold voortgaan met sy planne om ’n megamynhoop bo-op ’n mielieland, in ’n vlei en gedeeltelik op ’n rivier ...
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UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME UNEP
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2008-02-03 |
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SA Federation to fight polluters
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2008-01-04 |
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS have set up a federation intended to take legal action against mi...
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RADIO 702
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2008-02-03 |
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MEC denies Green Scorpions are ineffective 10/29/2007 8:17:27 AM
Gauteng Agriculture MEC Khabisi Mosunkutu has denied claims that environmental watchdog, the Green Scorpions, isn\'t doing enough to deal with mining houses t...
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LIVES AT RISK AS MINES COIN IT
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2008-01-04 |
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State knew about danger for 40 years
Gold mines on the Witwatersrand are exposing millions of peop...
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RADIO 567 CAPE TALK
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2008-01-04 |
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MEC denies Green Scorpions are ineffective 10/29/2007 8:17:27 AM
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STATE DOES LITTLE TO ACT AGAINST POLLUTERS
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2008-01-04 |
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Conservancies, Provincial Conservancy Associations and the National Association of Conservancies (NACSA) have turned up to support the Federation for a Sustainable Environment.
The Federation has called for a united front in holding government ac...
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Federation: David and Goliath
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2008-01-04 |
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Petite, softly spoken Mariette van Liefferink has thrown down the gauntlet. But her fight is with the Big Boys.
She says “It is my respectful but firm opinion that it is only by civil soc...
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Carte Blanche Toxic Water
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2008-01-04 |
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The Wonderfontein Spruit starts near Randfontein in the north and moves all the way down south to Potchefstroom. It flows through the richest gold mining region in the world.
The Coetzee’s have stopped farming mealies because the crops turn...
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SA "Erin" widens toxic water fight
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2008-01-04 |
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JOHANNESBURG – She is an iron lady and has already been dubbed South Africa’s Erin Brockovich for exposing the toxic water on the far West Rand.
Mariette Liefferink, who calls herself a “whistle-blowing” activist, f...
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Poisoned by mines
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2008-01-04 |
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Water too dangerous for farming.
The sediment in the Wonderfonteinspruit is so radioactive farmers have been banned from watering their livestock or irrigating their crops with its water.
A directive issued to farmers ...
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SA FEDERATION TO FIGHT POLLUTERS
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2008-01-04 |
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ENVIRONMENTALISTS have set up a federation intended to take legal action against mining companies and South Africa’s government with regard to a number of areas they claim have been badly damaged by pollution.
“It’s for us to es...
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Eskom resists electrification of
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2008-01-04 |
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A housing project is facing being plunged into darkness after electricity supplier Eskom has said it will not electrify the area because it is being built in a ‘death zone’.
According to a report in the City Press, the area ...
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Shell in Bryanston - Case Study Told at Corporate Accountability Week
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2008-01-04 |
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A dynamic woman from Bryanston, Sandton, took on oil giant Shell and won. For seven years Mariette Liefferink fought Shell’s proposal to develop a Shell Ultra City fuel station in her neighbourhood.
Mariette believed that the ...
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Vrou-alleen teen Shell
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2008-01-04 |
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Selfs haar grootste vyand, Shell, een van Suid-Afrika se belangrikste verskaffers van brandstof, haal sy hoed af vir dié "dinamiese vrou" van Bryanston, Sandton.
Die vrou waarna mnr. Lutz Kranz, kommunikasiehoof van Shell, verwys...
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Mariette has 'em shell-shocked
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2008-01-04 |
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Johannesburg - Even Shell, one of South Africa\'s biggest fuel suppliers, takes its hat off to Mariette Liefferink, the "dynamic woman" from Bryanston, Sandton, who has fought them for seven years to stop an "Ultra" being built in...
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Dapper mense
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2008-01-04 |
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Hoede af vir mevv. Mariette Liefferink van Sandton en Amanda van Niekerk van Kempton Park.
Liefferink het jare lank en meestal vrou-alleen teen die oliereus Shell geveg om die bou van \'n vulstasie in haar woonbuurt te keer, onder meer omdat dit ...
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Familie wil R53m van myn he
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2008-01-04 |
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Afstammelinge van die oorspronklike eienaar van die plaas Driefontein, buite Carletonville, gaan skadevergoeding van R53 miljoen van Goldfields eis omdat dié mynm...
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REUSE EIS TEEN MYN OOR PLAAS
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2008-01-04 |
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CARLETONVILLE. - Afstammelinge van die oorspronklike eienaar van die plaas Driefontein hier gaan skadevergoeding van R53 miljoen van Goldfields eis omdat dié mynmaatskappy glo h...
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R210m reg om myn te rehabiliteer - oor 20 jaar
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2008-01-04 |
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Die Driefontein-rehabilitasietrustfonds sal R210 miljoen sterk wees teen die tyd wat die Wesdriefonteinmyn buite Carletonville moontlik oor 20 jaar sluit.
Die g...
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Aktivis na OB oor optrede teen myn
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2008-01-04 |
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\'n Omgewingskenner en -aktivis het \'n klag by die openbare beskermer (OB) ingedien teen die departement van minerale en energie omdat die departement glo weier om op te tree teen Goldfields.
Me. Mariette Liefferink beweer Goldfields het ...
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Hofstryd teen Goldfields laat vaar oor stappe
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2008-01-04 |
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\'n Omgewingsaktivis het haar hofstryd teen Goldfields laat vaar nadat die departement van waterwese en bosbou besluit het om R3 miljoen te begroot vir \'n omvattende studie om "presies" vas te stel hoe die omgewing en veral die watersituas...
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Groep plaas druk op regering oor spruit se water
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2008-01-04 |
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’n Nuwe omgewingsorganisasie het ’n beroep op die regering gedoen om onmiddellik in die openbaar te verklaar dat die water in die Wonderfonteinspruit en die Mooirivier wat by Potchefstroom verbyvloei, veilig is om te drink.
Die pasges...
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Gewone mense kan omgewing bewaar
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2008-01-04 |
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Die groep Sea Shepherd se aktiviste voer skynbaar ’n verlore stryd om die walvisse van die Suidelike Oseaan – ’n walvisbewaringsgebied by Antarktika – teen Japanse harpoene te beskerm.
Hierdie groep aktiviste stry egter al...
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Owerheid erken spruit is besoedel
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2008-01-04 |
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Randfontein. – Die Nasionale Kernreguleerder (NKR) het sy deuntjie verander en eindelik erken daar is ’n ernstige besoedelingsprobleem in die Wonderfonteinspruit en oorsese wetenskaplikes aangestel om dit te ondersoek.
Di&eacut...
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Suur mynwater lei tot sinkgate
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2008-01-04 |
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Suur mynwater bedreig nie net mens- en dierelewens en die fondamente van geboue nie, maar vreet ook aan ondergrondse dolomitiese kompartemente aan die Witwatersrand. Dít kan lei tot sinkgatvorming in die hele gebied.
Só het dr. Fran...
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Suur mynwater bedreig lewe
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2008-01-04 |
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JOHANNESBURG. – Suur mynwater bedreig nie net mens- en dierelewens en die fondamente van geboue nie, maar vreet ook aan die ondergrondse dolomitiese kompartemente aan die Witwate...
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NKR moet uithaal en wys, eis aarde-NRO
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2008-01-04 |
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Die Nasionale Kernreguleerder (NKR) versuim sy plig teenoor die gemeenskap deur ’n belangrike verslag oor uraanbesoedeling in die Wonderfonteinspruit terug te hou.
Só het die nie-regeringsorganisasie Pea (Public Environmental Arbiter...
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Menseregte word misken waar mynbou beoefen word
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2008-01-04 |
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Dit lyk of daar oorweldigende getuienis is dat menseregte misken word in omgewings waar mynbou beoefen word.
Só het adv. George Bizos, hoof van die eenheid vir grondwetlike regsake by die Legal Resources Centre (LRC), gister gesê oor...
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Vrae oor stowwe in Rietvlei, verslag hoop op
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2008-01-04 |
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Hoe is dit moontlik dat die Waternavorsingskommissie (WNK) – wat veronderstel is om onafhanklik te funksioneer – swig onder druk om die naam van ’n navorsingsverslag kort voor die publikasie daarvan te verander?
Wie is daarvoor ...
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Hoe het myne siek gemaak?
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2008-01-04 |
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Potchefstroom. – Dié stad se inwoners het die reg om te weet hoe die goudmynbedryf hul gesondheid beïnvloed het.
“Ons dring aan op uriene- en bloedtoetste,” het mnr. Mahesh Roopa, direkteur van gesondheid en omgewing...
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Inwoners moet weet van giftige gebied
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2008-01-04 |
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Dit is die regering en in die besonder die Nasionale Kernreguleerder (NKR) se plig om die inwoners van die omgewing van die Wonderfonteinspruit (van Randfontein af weswaarts tot by Gerhard Minnebronveenland) te waarsku dat hulle in ’n gevaar...
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Wonderfonteinspruit Glo Veilig
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2008-01-04 |
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Beesboere in die omgewing van die besoedelde Wonderfonteinspruit sal hul diere van dié waterbron moet weghou en hulle uit trôe laat suip.
Maar die water in die Wonderfonteinspruit is “heeltemal veilig” vir mense om...
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Gif In Die Water
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2008-01-04 |
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Vleis, vis, melk, mielies en ander gewasse wat naby die Wonderfonteinspruit geproduseer word, is waarskynlik gevaarlik vir mense omdat dit erg met onder meer radioaktiewe gifstowwe besoedel is.
Dié besoedeling raak die gebied van Randfonte...
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100 YEARS OF URANIUM POLLUTION - CLASS ACTION PENDING
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2008-01-04 |
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Environmentalists have setup a federation intended to lake legal action against mining companies and South Africa\'s Government with regard to a number or areas they claim have been badly damaged by pollution.
"Its for us to establish...
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Duisende Beeste Dalk Geskiet Oor Besoedeling
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2008-01-04 |
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Veeboere langs die Wonderfonteinspruit gaan dalk duisende beeste doodskiet en die karkasse laat verbrand omdat die diere se vleis en melk met radioaktiewe gifstowwe besmet is.
“Ons het geen ander keuse nie. Ons kan tog nie toekyk hoe...
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Swanepoel lig sluier oor
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2008-01-04 |
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Hy is “ ’n groen kapitalis”. Só het mnr. Bernard Swanepoel, voormalige uitvoerende hoof van Harmony Gold, Vrydag by ’n sakeontbyt in Rosebank, Johannesburg, gesê. Dit was Swanepoel se eerste openbare optrede seder...
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Who's to blame?
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2008-01-04 |
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The Brenk Report, which documented the levels of toxins ...
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MYMONOPOLIE SE GRU-MOERAS
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2008-01-04 |
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Mense en omgewing stik onder goudwelvaart.
As ’n tienjarige kind van Carletonville of Welver- diend tot tien kan tel én sy naam kan skryf, is hy nie in dié gebied gebore nie.
Dít is &rsqu...
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FEMINA - ECO WARRIORS
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2007-11-15 |
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Tackling toxins
Mariette Liefferink, 54, is an environmental justice activist with a particular interest in mining.
What are you fighting for?
Corporate responsibility and accountability in the goldmining i...
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SUNDAY TRIBUNE - TOP LAWYER JOINS FORCES WITH GREENS
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2007-11-14 |
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September 09, 2007 Edition 2
Leon Marshall
The government and mining houses face a major challenge - with the strong likelihood of legal action - from a powerful new conservation alliance.
The coalition is about to...
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ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS AND TOURISM PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE
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2007-11-21 |
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PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ORAL SUBMISSION: NUCLEAR ENERGY IN SOUTH AFRICA
HISTORIC PRECEDENT OF INSTITUTIONAL CONTROL, MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, P ARTICULARL Y URANIUM: WONDERFONTEINSPRUIT ...
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