Mine security guards and farmers are alleged to have opened fire on Kuboes, Sanddrift, Eksteenfontein and Lekkersing community members during a protest earlier this week after the exclusion of the ...

A major privatisation and black economic empowerment deal has suffered a blow as a result of this week’s Constitutional Court ruling that the Richtersveld community has a legitimate claim to ...

Johannesburg - A Richtersveld community will ask the Constitutional Court on Friday to uphold a Supreme Court of Appeal judgment that restored the ownership of diamond-rich land to them. The land and ...

The relentless extraction of minerals has led to environmental degradation that threatens the biodiversity in the Richtersveld area of the Northern Cape. In combination with increasing levels of plant ...

State diamond-mining company Alexkor will have to mothball some of its activities if the Richtersveld land claim is not settled, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said on Thursday. Delivering his ...

'[I] essentially was able to see how much the place is turning to dune, completely not the normal state for that space,' says Leonie Joubert, a science journalist. Saskia Falken interviews Leonie ...

Renewed hope is being infused into the people of the ailing Northern Cape region the Richtersveld. The communities of Kuboes, Sanddrift, Eksteenfontein and Lekkersing received 84000ha of diamond-rich ...

Bloemfontein - Government conceded on Tuesday in the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein that the Richtersveld community on the West Coast retained ownership of their land after British annexation ...