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South African Banks are often key funders of a number of mining companies. Questions abound on the nature of these deals and the lack of transparency that surrounds them. |
![]() July 06th, 2015
Resource-rich countries are said to be more prone to negative outcomes ranging from slow economic growth, underinvestment in human capital, and environmental degradation to corruption, authoritarian rule, and violent conflict. |
![]() October 20th, 2014
This report completes the ground breaking series by describing all aspects of the commercialization of Congolese gold. |
![]() August 08th, 2014
Global and regional mechanisms for natural resource governance such as PWYP, EITI, KCP, Frank-Dodd Act, and the AMV have evolved against the backdrop of ideas and practices undergirding the resource curse. |
![]() August 06th, 2014
35 persons, mainly trade unionists, CSO activists and journalists from Southern Africa took part in the 2 day constituency building workshop |
![]() June 19th, 2014
History teaches us that Britain was the world’s largest empire and pre-eminent superpower during the 19th century. During this period, Britain built thriving global companies that cemented its economic dominance by exploiting the resources of its colonies and other countries. |
![]() February 26th, 2014
There are two economic realities on the African continent today. |
![]() October 30th, 2013
Contains the most compelling arguments why the KP must adapt or lose its relevance. |
![]() October 29th, 2013
Barometer is a set of clear principles for measuring transparency, accountability and equity in the exploitation of the region’s vast natural resources |
![]() September 02nd, 2013
In its first ground breaking research report into artisanal gold mining in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) demonstrated how the industr |
![]() August 29th, 2013
The Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) organised a major consultative conference in Kinshasa on 2-3 May, 2013 to discuss the impact of key peace agreements and the trade in conflict minerals in |
![]() April 16th, 2013
Gold miners in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) no longer fear homicidal warlords and militias but they are still being ruthlessly exploited – by a plague of corrupt government of |
![]() October 04th, 2012
On 21st May 2012, the first regional conference for southern and East Africa on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was held in Cape Town. |
![]() August 14th, 2012
People’s Republic of China (PRC) has prioritised Africa as a strategic partner at both the political and economic levels, while seeking to link African commodity and consumer markets to China’s growing economy |
![]() April 25th, 2012
The Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM) company controls a 1,600 square kilometre mining concession in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). |
![]() January 27th, 2012
Mozambique has attracted two of the world’s largest mining companies – Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale) and the Anglo-Australian multinational Rio Tinto – to extract coal from the huge fi |
![]() July 04th, 2011
Southern Africa Resource watch and the Centre for Policy Studies organized a conference on the nationalization of mines which was attended by all political parties with the exception of the rulin |
![]() September 29th, 2010
Since the discovery of copper deposits in Zambia during the 1930s, copper has spelled both doom and boom for the country’s social, political and economic activities. |
![]() September 02nd, 2010
Increased demands for resources around the world have attracted significant new investment in Africa’s extractive industries, covering mining, oil and gas, timber and fishing. |
![]() August 24th, 2010
Africa is a poor continent, rich in resources. |
![]() July 31st, 2009
Through out the history of copper mining in Zambia, the mining companies have been the major source of revenue to the government. |
![]() June 30th, 2009
It is projected that if the economy does not improve within the next two years, more than half a million mineworkers in the region will lose their jobs. |
![]() June 17th, 2009
The proponents of the KPCS argue that it has played a key role in ending wars in the region. |
![]() May 29th, 2009
The Forestry Department in Malawi, which is responsible for all forestry matters, was established in 1942. |
![]() March 11th, 2009
This report has been compiled by a group of African and international civil society organisations concerned about the lack of transparency in mining contracts, as well as the revenue that national |
![]() June 17th, 2008
These guidelines provide a framework, which the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government can use to ensure that the revision of contracts is fair, just and transparent. |
![]() June 17th, 2008
Malawi is not known historically to be well endowed with mineral wealth. |
![]() June 17th, 2008
Zambia was the first country on the African continent to produce copper and its economy has historically been heavily dependent on the mining of copper and cobalt. Once a middle-income country, Zambia began to slide into poverty in the 1970s when copper prices declined on the world market. |