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Dineo Skosana

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Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand

Community activists protesting against a coal mine, South Africa. Courtesy Centre for Environmental Rights

March 9, 2025

Moving graves and people for coal mines: the devastating costs of mining in South Africa

Dineo Skosana, University of the Witwatersrand

A new book looks at the spiritual dislocation experienced by people to make way for coal mines.

A cemetery in Phola, a black residential area near Witbank, to which some graves were relocated to make way for coal mining. Supplied

November 9, 2019

Mining activities continue to dispossess black families in South Africa

Dineo Skosana, University of the Witwatersrand

Mining companies and some heritage consultants don’t understand the sacredness attached to ancestral remains, and the meaning of land in African communities.

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