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After months of campaigning for the Department of Water & Sanitation’s report to be released, it was eventually made public and can be accessed here. This activism is an integral part of our Tailings Literacy Programme, which is central to building community power. After years of demanding that the report be made public, we finally…
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Submission to the South African Human Rights Commission by Data-Centres, Surveillance, Control Working Group – Johannesburg, 30 July 2026 “A more viable, scientifically grounded alternative exists: distributed, scaled-down datacentre infrastructure that prioritises resource sovereignty, community benefit, environmentalsustainability, and agricultural protection over brute-force extraction. It is our contentionthat through the establishment of regulatory standards that mandate…
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How Government’s New Plan Paves a Four-Lane Highway for the Oligarchs By Nicholas H. Tucker, 29 July 2026 I had to to rub my eyes in utter disbelief when a colleague pointed me towards a news article this morning, South Africa’s digital future is at a crossroads, and the government is signaling it will throw…
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This dialogue is between Jan Morril (interviewee) a Tailings campaign manager at Earthworks and Hassen Lorgat (interviewer) who was previously part of the Bench-Marks Foundation and is now the convener of CSOs 4 Tailings Justice. Date 22 July 2026. Source: Bench-Marks Foundation Listen to the audio Read the transcript “Tailings are dangerous because essentially, they’re…
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By Hassen Lorgat This piece follows my recent article on the withdrawn AI policy, in which I argued that civil society groups can still re‑engineer social, environmental, and justice perspectives into the debate. Recent reports described how the minister and their staff were grilled by the portfolio committee over issues of AI hallucinations and the withdrawn…
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By Anna Weekes, MongaBay, 8 Jun 2026
CSOs 4 Tailings Justice 