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Eurasian Resources Group has announced the publication of its sustainable development report for 2020, entitled ‘Sustainability in Challenging Times’.

The Traditional and Khoisan Leadership Act signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2019 as well as other existing royalties legislation is up for scrutiny to tighten loopholes, which have seen communities fleeced of billions of rands over the years by traditional leadership under the guise of representing them.

We remember the 1956 Women’s March and Marikana, as the HJI launches its TRIPS waiver webinar series and Corruption Watch discusses active citizenry.

Festivals in the world, the edinburgh fringe, finally gets under way today — after its cancellation last summer because of the pandemic. time to look at what's happening in our regions from across the uk. comments by the prime minister about the closure of coal mines by margaret thatcher have been condemned as an insult to former mining communities. borisjohnson said she gave the uk "a big early start" in the move away from coal—fired power by closing "so many coal mines". 0pponents have seized on his remarks and called on him to apologise. east midlands today's political editor tony roe r...

Hywel Francis, Labour MP and historian who explored the struggles of South Wales miners – obituary His 14 years as an MP, during which time he championed carers’ rights, was book-ended by a distinguished academic career Hywel Francis in 2005 Credit: David Wimsett /UPPA/Photoshot Hywel Francis, who has died aged 74, was a gifted academic, and later a Labour MP, who made a unique contribution to chronicling the history of the struggles of the South Wales miners. The son of the coalfield’s Communist miners’ leader Dai Francis, who led them through the disputes of the 1970s, he chaired th...