ELASA Monthly Meeting, October 2026
Please join us on ZOOM, for a presentation by Katya Sumner-Priilaid "The REIPPPP and its Development Requirements: Towards South Africa's Just Energy Transition (University of Cape Town).
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The War without Strategy: South Africa’s Escalating Criminalisation of Illegal Mining
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) have just published a raft of new Bills adress illegal mining.
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Gender-Based Violence in the Mining: Women’s Month Should be a Call to Action for Change
Due to the generally dismissive attitude towards GBVH, women’s Month presents an opportunity for the government, corporations, and political parties to boast of their social activism to gain favour and support from the public.
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Acknowledging Mining’s Unsung Heroes: Practical steps for Mining Companies and Governments to Achieve a Just Artificial Intelligence Transition
Picture a world where mining companies enjoy reduced operations costs, increased efficiency, and continuous productivity
while enhancing workers' health and safety. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can bring about this reality.
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The Rise in Class Action Lawsuits against Mining ‘Powerhouses’ in South Africa
South African mining companies continue to neglect the health and safety of mineworkers. Might class-action lawsuits provide justice and better working conditions?
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Event Review Mining Indaba 2024: Are Young Academics Included?
The Mining Indaba must be careful not to further perpetuate the harmful and exclusionary industry narratives and ensure that young people are also given a seat at the table.
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Financial and Fiscal Incentives Applicable to South Africa’s Renewable Energy Sector: A Balancing Act
One way in which the State can achieve such ends is by convincing investors to move away from conventional extractive practices and shift towards renewable forms of energy.
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Critical Infrastructure and Strategic Project Protection: Who Must Protect South Africa’s Mines?
South Africa’s mining sector is the backbone of its economy. As the fifth largest in the world, it employs hundreds of thousands of people and generates billions in tax revenues.
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Space Mining Trends Forecast African Strategic Partnerships
The act of mining is already burdensome on earth. Mining risks more than tenfold in space. Mining in outer space is thus something that can only be considered for nations already comfortably able to explore outer space.
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Space Mining & Africa: will they, or won’t they?
Outer space: the final frontier. That exciting neighbourhood just beyond the earth’s reach where wishes upon stars live (although if you would like to be more technical about it
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COVID-19 AND MINING REFLECTIONS ON A PANDEMIC
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mining
sector and host communities can only be characterised as
far-reaching and devastating.
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Part III: An analysis of the Detrimental Effect of the Expropriation of Surface (land) Rights
The expropriation of subsurface land rights as it relates to the petroleum industry may be instrumental in transforming the industry by eliminating neo-colonialism and the influences of apartheid.
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