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Magnificent Mndebele

  • Media and Communications Manager, Mining Affected Communities United in Action
South Africa
As seen in: MSN South Africa, City Press, Fin24, News24, Independent Online, TimesLIVE, AllAfrica, The Citizen (South Africa), Daily Maverick, Mail & Guardian and
Editor @Highveldchron and journalism lecturer @CPUT | former investigator for @amabhungane and head of comms @macua_sa and lecturer @go2uj and @Edu_vos

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Magnificent Mndebele is a journalist for a social justice not-for-profit media company called New Frame. Currently, at The Open Journal, he's serving the post of being an Advisor and Features' editor. He is passionate about grassroots journalism that has a social impact on the ordinary people. Some of his work has appeared on TimesLive, The Journalist, Mkhondo FM, UJFM, EWN, Khanyisa Newspaper, The Citizen, GroundUP, The Dawn News in India (now known as People's Dispatch) and many more

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South Africa: Mining Companies Are Breaking Their Promises - and the State Is Doing Nothing About It Original

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By Magnificent Mndebele
| AllAfrica
MACUA report finds mining companies are not sticking to their Social and Labour Plans A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action (MACUA) has found that 11 mining companies have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
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Mining companies are breaking their promises - and the state is doing nothing about it

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By Magnificent Mndebele
| GroundUp Verified
A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action (MACUA) has found that 11 mining companies have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities. The report, titled “Looted Promises: the Crumbs Economy of Mining and the Myth of the Just Transition”, also finds that Parliament’s mining portfolio committee and the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DPMR) have failed to hold mining companies accountable.
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Past sins come back to haunt microlenders, with Capitec on the frontline

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By Buyeleni Sibanyoni, Dewald van Rensburg, Magnificent Mndebele
| amaBhungane Verified
A widespread past practice of procuring unlawful emolument attachment orders (EAO’s –  better known as garnishee orders) to recover debts directly from defaulting debtors’ salaries may soon result in significant restitution claims against major microlenders. A garnishee is a third party (such as an employer) who is instructed, by way of a legal notice known as a ‘garnishee order’, to surrender money in order to settle a debt.
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