PODCAST | The human cost of South Africa’s mining and corporate riches – The Mail & Guardian

[PODCAST] We explore the colonial and apartheid-era policies and practices that modelled the exploitative and exclusive nature of mining in South Africa. This legacy continues to shape the present-day mining industry's economic, social, and legal landscape

A restricted area warning sign sits on the site of old kimberlite rock tailings beside a water filled excavation pit at the Voorspoed diamond mine, operated by De Beers SA, in Kroonstad, South Africa.

In this podcast, we explore the colonial and apartheid-era policies and practices that modelled the exploitative and exclusive nature of mining in South Africa, a legacy that continues to shape the economic, social, and legal landscape of the present-day mining industry. Various accounts from mining-affected community members, as captured in Lawyers for Human Rights and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s 2022 report The Impact and Assessment of Improper Mine Closures in South Africa: Community Perspectives on Human Rights, reveal the demographic and socioeconomic landscape that evolved from apartheid spatial planning and a mining legacy that remains largely unchanged.

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