Tendele Coal’s open pit mine, Somkhele, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, is set to close and has already cut 1,600 jobs, with 22 employees left, due to ongoing litigation. 

But the group, Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation (MCEJO), that has brought repeated legal action against the miner says it has itself to blame for what it says is a failure to comply with environmental authorisation requirements...

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