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June 6, 1972: explosions at Zim’s Hwange coal mine, then owned by Anglo American. 427 people die. Included: 91 Zambians, 52 Mozambicans, 37 Malawians, 3 Tanzanians, 14 Britons, 12 South Africans, 13 Namibians, one from Botswana. Tragedy forced many changes in mine safety rules

This really did happen. As one expat worker at Tasiast Gold Mine in Mauritania put it: "I saw an opportunity to work in West Africa again, and loved the idea of living in the Canary Islands." web.archive.org/web/2024041408…

Trying to read an article from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences from 1889, by people long dead, on fossils of animals even longer dead, and Wiley want anywhere from $16 (48-hour online access) to $62 (to get to keep a pdf) for me to do so. Who does this benefit?

Botswana’s economy was built on diamond mining. Now that lab-grown synthetics are cheaper and faster to get, it’s all crumbling down, Duncan Money (Duncan Money) writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/diamond-mining…

“[In 2023] 12 mining companies reported 9,406 employees, including 90.54% who were Burkinabè & 9.46% who were women. In total, the sector [industrial & artisanal] generated 251,029 direct & indirect jobs, which is 1.95% of the actively employed population.”

The rapid development of lab-grown synthetic diamonds looks like it will deliver a death blow to diamond mining. For countries like Botswana that depend on diamonds for their economic wellbeing, that’s a major problem, writes Duncan Money (Duncan Money). worldpoliticsreview.com/diamond-mining…

SAIPAR Fellow Pamela Towela Sambo is taking part in the following webinar: Beyond the Spill: Zambia’s Kafue River Disaster and its Aftermath. Thursday 19th June 2025 at 14:00hrs online discussion to unpack the wide-ranging impacts of the Kafue River disaster, and to explore