Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781032510439 / Twarda / 2024 / 200 str.

Opis

This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Understanding mine closure: Global and national trends

Lochner Marais, Sethulego Matebesi and Verna Nel

 

Chapter 2: A theoretical framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure

Lochner Marais, Sethulego Matebesi and Verna Nel

 

Chapter 3: Chapter 3: Mine closure policies and strategies in South Africa: A critical review

Samkelisiwe Khanyile and Lochner Marais

 

Chapter 4: A scoping review of the literature on mine closure

Anita Venter, Job Gbadegesin and David van Wyk

 

Chapter 5: Miners’ lives after retrenchment

Tina Kotzé, Joy Alec, Mmboneni Magadzu and Jan Cloete

 

Chapter 6: West Rand: Decline in South Africa’s economic heartland

Margaret Kusambiza-Kiingi, Verna Nel and Job Gbadegesin

 

Chapter 7:  Matjhabeng: Decline in the urban periphery

Kentse Sesele and Margaret Kusambiza-Kiingi

 

Chapter 8: Kleinzee: Looking for a new dawn amidst the diamond dust

Anmar Pretorius & Derick Blaauw

 

Chapter 9: Koffiefontein mine downscaling: Socioeconomic and infrastructural consequences

Sethulego Matebesi, Thomas Stewart, Maléne Campbell & Oupa Kale

 

Chapter 10: Alexkor and the Richtersveld community: Unlikely partners to mine diamonds together

Phia van der Watt

 

Chapter 11: Tshikondeni: Mine closure in a deeply rural area

Verna Nel and Dolphin Mabale

 

Chapter 12: Emalahleni’s just transition: From closure to collaboration?

Lucius Botes, Samkelisiwe Khanyile and Zizi Mqotyana

 

Chapter 13: Rustenburg: The struggle to go beyond mining

Sethulego Matebesi & John Ntema

 

Chapter 14: Rustenburg: Coping despite mine decline

Ngaka Mosiane and Cathy Dzerefos

 

Chapter 15: A framework for understanding the social aspects of mine closure in South Africa

Lochner Marais, Sethulego Matebesi and Verna Nel

O autorze

Sethulego Matebesi is an Associate Professor and Academic Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa. His previous publications include Civil Strife Against Local Governance: Dynamics of Community Protests in South Africa (2017) and Social Licensing and Mining in South Africa (Routledge, 2020).

Lochner Marais is a Professor of Development Studies at the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State (UFS), South Africa, and an executive editor of the newly established journal: Research Directions: Mine Closure and Transitions. He is also an honorary professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute, University of Queensland, Australia. He has published The Social Impacts of Mine Closure in South Africa: Housing Policy and Place Attachment (Routledge, 2022).

Verna Nel is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She is also qualified as a town and regional planner at Wits University, South Africa.