News and Press Statements
Mining companies use employment forums to divide communities and fostercorruption
Excerpt: Marginalised and mining affected communities are desperate for agile and responsive regulatory frameworks as mining companies exploit communities’ desperation for employment and use this as a divisive tactic to demobilise communities from holding the entities...
Katlego Kgasi Found a Home He Had Been Longing For in YAMUA
By Senthati Katlego Zasekhaya Katlego Kgasi, a 24-year-old activist from Ekurhuleni, was born at extension 6 in Langaville, a shack settlement located in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng. Langaville is one of the many underdeveloped townships in the...
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Looted Promises: The Crumbs Economy of Mining and the Myth of the Just Transition
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The Dangerous Illusion of South Africa’s Growth Agenda
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MACUA Exposes R284-Million in Vanished Mining Promises: New Report Reveals ‘Crumbs Capture’ as Systemic Looting Model
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MACUA Raises Alarm Over Exclusion of Communities in State Energy and Mining Plans
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MACUA WAMUA April Newsletter 2025
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MACUA Challenges DMPR’s 2025-2030 Strategic Plan: Mining Justice Cannot Be Achieved Without Communities at the Centre
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MACUA Condemns Violent Police Crackdown on Peaceful Protesters inMmaditlhokwa, Marikana
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MACUA Statement on Government’s Proposed Illegal Mining Law Reforms
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MACUA Lodges Formal Complaint Against Chairperson of Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Misleading Parliament and Violating Constitutional and Ethical Standards
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MACUA Stilfontein Massacre Submission to SAHRC March 2025
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MACUA to Submit Landmark Report to the South African Human Rights Commission on the Stilfontein Massacre
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MACUA to Submit Landmark Report to the South African Human Rights Commission on the Stilfontein Massacre
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STATEMENT FROM MACUA: PARLIAMENT’S BETRAYAL OF OVERSIGHT AND JUSTICE
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MACUA and Other Civil Society Organisations Will Interdict Tendele Coal’s Unlawful Mining Operations
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MACUA Condemns Portfolio Committee’s Deliberate Exclusion of Mining-Affected Communities from Overnight Visit to Mpumalanga
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Buffelsfontein Tragedy: A Community’s Fight for Justice and Accountability
Dear comrades, We extend our deepest thanks to every individual, organisation and collective that has contributed in ways big and small to making the seemingly impossible possible: a fully community-led rescue and relief operation for the artisanal miners who...
MACUA and Other Civil Society Organisations Will Interdict Tendele Coal’s Unlawful Mining Operations
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