How eskom & the government can put an end to loadshedding in south africa
In 2021, this investment in renewable energy could have reduced coal electricity generation by nearly 10 TWh saving Eskom a further R4.2 Bn in coal costs. The net energy savings would have achieved a cost reduction of 3 billion rands to the utility, a cost saving that would be passed on to the South African consumer.
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Fossil fuel's killer air pollution: South Africa's death toll
Fossil fuel's killer air pollution: South Africa's death toll. by Leonie Joubert. 30 Mar 2021. A year since the first COVID-19 cases appeared in South Africa, the disease has killed more than 50,000 people. A new study now shows that a similar number of South Africans die each year due to diseases caused by air pollution linked with the ...
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We care and we remember
Hlobane, 12 September 1983. The Minerals Council South Africa and the coal industry remembers the 64 miners who lost their lives in a methane explosion at the Hlobane colliery, near the town of Vryheid in KwaZulu-Natal. The explosion was South Africa's second most deadly colliery disaster.
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Underground hazards: Work-related deaths in South Africa's …
By 5 July, South Africa's mining sector had recorded 32 deaths so far in 2021, compared with 24 in the same period last year. Despite the spike, the overall trend remains in the right direction.
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SOUTH AFRICA'S 4TH BIENNIAL UPDATE REPORT TO …
To that end, South Africa has updated and enhanced its ambition in its revised Nationally Determined Con-tribution (NDC) which it anticipates to submit later this year before the twenty-sixth session of the Con-ference of the Parties (COP 26). To maximize the potential of meeting South Africa's emission reduction targets, several policies and ...
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Rockfall in South African gold mine: 4 workers dead
They were trapped at a shaft after a tremor caused another rockfall. According to officials, 81 mine workers died in South Africa's mines during the last year. 4 mineworkers were found dead after a rockfall occurred in a gold mine located in Orkney, South Africa. The incident occurred on Friday, December 6, 2019.
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Mine Accidents and Disasters | Department of Mineral Resources
Between 1984 and 2005, more than 11 000 mine workers died in South Africa. In 2003, the death toll from mining accidents was approximately 270 fatalities and an agreement …
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Deep-sea mining: A new gold rush or environmental disaster?
However, it was the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru that sparked controversy and concern in mid-2021 when it notified the ISA of plans to start deep-sea mining, triggering a two-year deadline ...
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STATEMENT ON THE RELEASE OF THE 2022 MINE …
the seventy-four (74) fatalities recorded in 2021. It is also important to note that there has been no mine disaster or an accident where five or more people lose their lives recorded …
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SA was aiming to end mine fatalities
South Africa's mine deaths in 2021 shoot up compared to 2020, raising calls for increased effort to curb the scourge. Getty Images SA's mining industry and unions …
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AFRICA: the impact of mining on the environment | …
In a report published on May 18 th, 2021, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) Forêts et Développement Rural (Foder) claims to have recorded a total of 157 deaths on mining sites in …
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Bodies of 20 suspected illegal miners found near abandoned South Africa
Most illegal mining is run by crime syndicates. A 2018 report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime estimated that it costs South Africa more than £753m a year. The ...
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SA mining fatalities hit a record low in 2022 | Business
There was a notable reduction in mine deaths from fall-of-ground accidents, which dropped from 20 in 2021 to six in 2022. "We're encouraged that our collective efforts continue to show a downward trend," said Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe. "In 2019, we registered 51 fatalities, and we said that was a record.
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Dark, dark year-end for mining industry | City Press
The mining industry has expressed grave concern about the second consecutive year of regression, with 72 fatalities before the year has even ended. This is up from 60 fatalities last year, which itself translated to an 18% increase from the year before. Among recent fatal mining accidents was the one at Impala Platinum mine's shaft 6 in ...
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Fall-of-ground safety incidents come under the spotlight
May 7, 2018. The South African Chamber of Mines notes that fall of ground related safety incidents have been a significant area that joint industry efforts have focused on most intensively over the past several years. "Addressing fall of ground incidents, particularly at deep-level mines, is reflected in the more than R150 million that the ...
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Mining fatalities reach a new low of 49; injuries
South Africa 's mining industry suffered 49 fatalities in 2022 – a 34% improvement on the 74 fatalities of 2021 and a record low, thereby continuing the downward trend many in the mining...
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Mining industry in South Africa
Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 219.5 billion South African Rand (roughly 12.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2021 to South Africa's ...
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Waste From Mine in Angola Kills 12 Downstream in Congo, …
Sept. 3, 2021. LUANDA, Angola — First, the river turned red. Then dead fish by the ton floated up to the surface. Then thousands of people started getting sick. Now, 12 people have died in the ...
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Trends and causes of fatalities in South African mines
Safety Science. The trends and principal causes of occupational fatalities and disasters (defined as six or more fatalities in one incident) in the South African mining industry are analysed. A miner who spends twenty years working underground faces a one in thirty chance of dying in an occupational accident.
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South Africa: mining industry fatalities 2022 | Statista
Premium statistics Industry-specific and extensively researched technical data (partially from exclusive partnerships). A paid subscription is required for full access. Read more Fatalities in the...
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South Africa: Floods and landslides
A National State of Disaster has been declared after three days of pounding rain that has caused one of the deadliest natural disasters in South Africa´s recent history. According to national ...
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The Lily Mine Tragedy and the Collapse of South Africa's Criminal
On 29 July 2021, business rescue practitioners were found to be in contempt of two court orders for failure to conclude the BRP that will allow the retrieval process to commence. ... While global mining disasters have decreased in the 21 st century, ... Contributing over 8% of South Africa's GDP, the mining industry cannot be discounted …
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Exploring strategies for management of disasters associated with
However, illegal miners have made 'huge amounts of illicit profits at the expense of countries' economies, vulnerable populations, and the environment across the Central African region' (INTERPOL 2021:3). Illegal mining has plagued South Africa for decades, and according to the Chamber of Mines, South Africa (2016) has cost the …
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11 killed as South Africa platinum mine lift plunges
Several mine workers were killed at the same Rustenburg Implats mine in 2021, after a mudslide hit one of the shafts. More than 430 coal miners were killed in the Coalbrook disaster in 1960. More ...
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Fatality Reports | Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
August 18, 2023 Fatality. On August 18, 2023, MSHA was informed of a miner's death at Twin State Mining, Inc.'s Mine No. 39 in Elbert, WV. MSHA's initial findings indicated medical related issues as the cause of death. However, on September 26, 2023, MSHA received the death certificate which states cause of death is drowning.
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An environmental 'catastrophe' in Southern Africa …
A diamond mine co-owned by a Russian mining giant is accused of causing an "unprecedented environmental and human disaster" in Angola and the DRC. ... 2021, showing discharge headed towards ...
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Increasing droughts and floods on the African continent
After drought, flooding incidents affect the most people across the continent, though they are concentrated in a few countries: Indeed, collectively, Kenya, South Africa, and Mozambique ...
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49 fatalities recorded in mining industry | SAnews
Some 2 056 injuries were recorded, down from 2 143 in 2021, with no machinery related fatalities and no mine disasters reported. ... Mantashe said fall of ground incidents – which have claimed the most …
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Mine deaths in South Africa rise for second consecutive year
The death toll in South Africa's mines so far in 2021 is 69, up from 48 a year earlier, the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy said in a statement on Monday [File: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters]
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'South Africa must learn from its environmental disasters'
When Professor Rajen Naidoo did a Google search for recent environmental disasters in South Africa, the single incident he found was the 1994 Merriespruit mining disaster in the Free State. A ...
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