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This document is a Pollution Prevention Plan Annual Progress Report for Samancor Manganese (PTY) Ltd (Metalloys, Meyerton), dated June 2019. It includes a declaration of accuracy signed by JC Jordaan on May 28, 2019, and a summary stating the company's commitment to reducing its environmental impact through projects prioritized for implementation over the next five years.

African Rainbow Minerals' first annual progress report for its Greenhouse Gas Pollution Prevention Plan reports total 2018 emissions of 181,986 tonnes of CO2 equivalents across its mining and ferroalloy operations in South Africa.

PPC Cement SA (Pty) Ltd submitted its 2018 Pollution Prevention Plan report to the Department of Environmental Affairs, detailing greenhouse gas emissions calculated in metric tonnes according to 2017 national regulations and guidelines.

This document is a Pollution Prevention Plan Annual Progress Report for Hillside Aluminium (Pty) Ltd, a South32 company. It outlines planned mitigation measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, specifically focusing on reducing anode scallops and anode effects in the reduction process to lower CO2 and PFC emissions over a five-year period.

This document is an appeal decision issued by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment of South Africa regarding a request by the Centre for Environmental Rights for access to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission data, pollution prevention plans, and annual progress reports from several major industrial entities.

A letter from Sasol South Africa Limited to the Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries regarding the company's commitment to air quality management and sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions.

The document consists of annexures to an answering affidavit regarding the Yzermyn Underground Coal Mine, including a water use license, ministerial permission to mine within the Mabola Protected Environment, and correspondence regarding the declaration of protected areas in Mpumalanga.

This document is a replying submission by Atha-Africa, submitted on 12 April 2019, responding to an administrative appeal against the approval of the Environmental Management Programme (EMP) for the Yzermyn Project. The submission disputes the findings of a September 2013 NSS Report and a subsequent 'Brownlie Review,' arguing that updated specialist studies by Delta-H and Scientific Aquatic Services demonstrate that the project's environmental impacts—specifically regarding wetlands, groundwater, and biodiversity—are localized and can be effectively mitigated.

This document consists of a series of panel reports, official letters, and motivations regarding the declaration of protected environments in Mpumalanga, South Africa, and the subsequent conflict with mining interests held by Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd (AAV). It details the administrative process of declaring the Mabola Protected Environment (MPE), the expansion of the Kwamandlangampisi Protected Environment (KPE), and the declaration of the Tafelkop Nature Reserve (TPNR), while addressing objections from local communities and AAV regarding socio-economic impacts and mining rights.

This document contains technical appendices and legal affidavits regarding the Yzermyn Underground Coal Mine (YUCM) in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It details the project's location within the endangered Wakkerstroom/Luneburg Grassland ecosystem, provides hydrogeological simulations of groundwater drawdown in shallow and deep aquifers, and includes the formal mining right granted to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd for an area of 8,382.6158 hectares.

This briefing provides a detailed chronology of a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) request submitted by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) to the Petroleum Agency for South Africa (PASA), documenting a process of delays and incomplete disclosures from September 2022 to August 2023.

This draft report details a two-day parliamentary colloquium held on 21 and 22 August 2018 by the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs of the Republic of South Africa. The event examined the ethical, conservation, and reputational impacts of captive lion breeding (CLB) for hunting and the lion bone trade, featuring testimony from government departments, industry bodies, and conservation NGOs.

This document contains the final heads of argument for the plaintiff, Wray Pex (Pty) Limited, in a defamation lawsuit against Arthur Barnes, Edward Mervyn John Gaylord, Helen Duigan, and Lisa Essberger. The plaintiff argues that the defendants recklessly imputed illegality to its activities, causing defamatory harm and delays, and seeks constitutional and exemplary damages.

A notice of appeal filed on 30 March 2015 by eight environmental organisations, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), challenging the grant of mining right MP30/5/1/2/2/1/0069MR to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd (AAV). The appeal seeks to set aside and suspend the right for the proposed Yzermyn underground coal mine, arguing that the grant is unlawful and irrational given the area's extreme environmental sensitivity, its status as a protected environment, and the lack of required ministerial consent.

A letter from the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) to the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) requesting urgent information regarding a mining right granted to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd for the proposed Yzermyn Underground Coal Mine within the Mabola Protected Environment.

A letter from the Republic of South Africa's Department of Water and Sanitation to the Centre for Environmental Rights regarding a water use licence application for the Yzermyn Mine in the Mabola Protected Environment.

The Centre for Environmental Rights, representing eight civil society organisations, has appealed the grant of a coal mining right to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd in the Mabola Protected Environment. The appellants request the suspension of the mining right and ask the Minister of Mineral Resources not to grant written permission for commercial mining under NEMPAA, arguing that the area's environmental sensitivity makes coal mining detrimental and that proper legal permissions were not obtained.

A letter from the Minister of Mineral Resources of the Republic of South Africa to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd granting a mining right for coal across several farms in the Wakkerstroom magisterial district, subject to specific regulatory and environmental conditions.

A letter from the South African Department of Mineral Resources to the Centre for Environmental Rights regarding an appeal against a mining right granted to Atha-Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd in the Wakkerstroom district of Mpumalanga.

A letter from Atha Africa Ventures (Pty) Ltd to the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) requesting that a notice of appeal submitted by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) be dismissed because the original mining right granting letter has been superseded by a second, amended version.