At a gala dinner hosted by the Eastern Cape Business Chamber in December 2018, the Eastern Cape MEC for Finance, Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Oscar Mabuyane, lamented the ...

For over a decade the community of Xolobeni, Eastern Cape, has been split over an application by Australian company Mineral Commodities' (MRC) application to open a mine in the area. Mineral Resources ...

Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe has slammed allegations that he and his department met privately with an Australian mining company looking to establish contentious mining operations at ...

Mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe on Wednesday announced the postponement of his trip to Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, citing bad roads and poor weather. In a statement, Mantashe’s office said ...

Shortly after Mantashe’s second visit to the community erupted in chaos, the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) issued a statement saying that the survey is in line with one of the outcomes of the ...

Activists accused Mineral Commodities and its South African subsidiary, Mineral Sands Resources, of using the court process to discourage activists from opposing the company’s plans to explore and ...

The Tshwane High Court says the Xolobeni community has the right to full and informed consent before a mining right is granted over their ancestral land. Image: JohanLorenzen/twitter The High Court in ...

Bekeni Danca, 40, was born in Xolobeni village and fears that if the project of an Australian-based company to mine the mineral sands along the coast of her village goes ahead, she will lose ...

The family of murdered Xolobeni mining activist Sikhosiphi Bazooka Radebe, supported by the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), has asked National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Shaun Abrahams to ...

JOHANNESBURG – The Xolobeni community on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape, has slammed Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe for allegedly pushing a referendum on titanium mining in the area's ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has distanced himself from reports by Australian company Mineral Commodities that the government is sympathetic to its mineral sand mine in Xolobeni in the ...

A cat, yes, the actual animal, made an appearance in court as junior counsel on June 10 2020. It was a virtual court hearing on an exceptional application by global mining and development company ...