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Popularizing new neo-colonial governance processes for African minerals?
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Author: Evans Rubara and Paula Butler
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Date Written: 11 June 2013
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Pambazuka issue 634
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Secondary Category:
-none-
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Source URL:
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/8779
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Key Words: Mining, Canadian companies, African governance,whitewash,
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Summary & Comment:
"There seems to be an unspoken foreign goal to prevent control of mining policy throughout Africa from falling into the hands of nationalist, pro-community political forces who will promote a vigorous resource nationalism agenda... Any possibility of a wide-ranging debate at this conference over the terms of the African mineral resource sector . . .
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South Africa: Don`t frack with the Karoo.
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Author: Muna Lakhani;
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Date Written: 28 May 2013
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Climate Justice Now
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Secondary Category:
Southern Region
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Source URL:
http://groups.google.com/group/cjn-south-africa/to
opics
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Key Words: South Africa, Karoo. methane, fracking, pollution, opposition
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Summary & Comment:
A number of groups gathered in Steylerville to expose the problems and difficulties of drilling and fracking for methane gas for the communities in the Karoo and for Mother Earth. They also linked with other regional and international groups. JK
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Africa Progress Panel report on MIning deals in DRC.
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Author: 3 RAID reports
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Date Written: 13 May 2013
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID)
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Secondary Category:
Central Region
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Source URL:
http:// http://africaprogresspanel.org//fr
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Key Words: DRC; mining deals, Africa progress panel, Kofi Annan
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Summary & Comment:
The Democratic Republic of Congo lost at least US$1.36-billion through a series of “opaque” sales of state-owned mining concessions, according to a landmark report. Foreign dealers, investors, get special deals by paying off Congolese officials. These and other accusations against specific companies come out in a report of a special panel headed by . . .
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Africa’s natural resources could dramatically improve the lives of millions
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Author: African Progress Panel
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Date Written: 10 May 2013
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: African Progress Panel
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Secondary Category:
Economic Justice
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Source URL:
http://www.africaprogresspanel.org
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Key Words: Resources, benefits, services, Graca Machel,government policies,
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Summary & Comment:
while natural resources may have fuelled a decade of rapid economic growth, most Africans have still not seen the benefits, report says. In many African countries, natural resource revenues are widening the gap between rich and poor. Although much has been achieved, a decade of highly impressive growth has not brought comparable improvements in hea . . .
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How Canada Dominates African Mining
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Author: Travis Lupick
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Date Written: 18 April 2013
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Think Africa Press
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Secondary Category:
Africa General
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Source URL:
http://thinkafricapress.com/economy/canada-dominat
tes-african-mining
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Key Words: Africa, mining, Canada, domination,
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Summary & Comment:
Foreign companies from a range of countries compete in Africa’s mining sector. But according to a number of measures, those from one country dominate: Canada. Canada – with a population less than one-tenth that of China’s and geographically about as far from Africa as one can get – has quietly grown to become one of the largest stakeholders in Af . . .
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A brutal tragedy that should never have happened
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Author: Brian Ashley
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Date Written: 20 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Amandla magazine
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Secondary Category:
Southern Region
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Source URL:
http://www.amandlapublishers.co.za
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Key Words: South Africa, mineworkers massacre, police, Lonmin, NUM
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Summary & Comment:
Here Amandla magazine comments on reasons for the Lonmin massacre as failure of political, management and union leadership. Amandla maintains that union leadership has been given sweet deals by the company - Lonmin- and so failed to defend its workers. This also allowed a rival mining union to start up and divide the workers. Amandla recommends the . . .
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Mines still have a long way to go to negate their harmful effects on communities
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Author: Benchmarks
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Date Written: 14 August 2012
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Primary Category:
Resource Extraction
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Document Origin: Benchmarks
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Secondary Category:
Southern Region
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Source URL:
http://www.bench-marks.org.za/
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Key Words: South Africa, platinum, Lonmin, massacre, communities
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Summary & Comment:
Media Statement by Benchmarks Foundation. This study follows on their original study in 2007, of the Platinum mining companies in Northwest Province. These include Lonmin mine, where only a few days after this issuing of detailoed reports, the massacre of some 34 miners by police took place. The study shows that the detailed recommendations to Par . . .
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