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The report evaluates how national, provincial, city, and corporate entities in South Africa incorporate social justice into their net zero commitments. It finds significant disparities in ambition and implementation, with wealthy urban centres leading and less affluent provinces lagging. While the financial sector and some state-owned enterprises show strong just transition frameworks, many private companies and multinational corporations rely on vague offsetting strategies with limited socio-economic integration.

A draft reply from the South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs regarding fish kills in the Blaaubankspruit in January 2011, attributing the event to sewage effluent rather than acid mine drainage.

This document is a draft written reply from the South African Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs to a National Assembly question (Question 1816) asked by Mr G R Morgan (DA) regarding acid mine drainage (AMD) on the West Rand.

The document examines a legal case where the New Heriot Gold Mining Company successfully sued the Union Government for damages after a railway embankment's failure to divert storm-water flooded its underground works. The court affirmed that while statutory authority provides some exemption from liability for water discharge, this does not cover works that are negligently executed or maintained. Notably, the court adopted a pragmatic approach to legal causation, ruling that the inability to mathematically apportion the exact volume of water caused by the state's negligence should not prevent a party from receiving relief.