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At General Motors’ annual shareholder meeting on June 2, 2026, shareholders will have the opportunity to vote on whether the company should report on the effectiveness of its policies and processes related to Indigenous Peoples’ rights. General Motors has made commitments to respect Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Now the company needs to show how it is following through.
The Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI), a yearly gathering of communities impacted by mining, civil society organizations, and faith-based groups worldwide, wrapped up in Cape Town following four days of discussions on Energy Transition Minerals: Putting Communities First for an Inclusive Feminist Future. Across town, government officials, business leaders, and investors attended the official Mining Indaba event.
On September 24, 2016, everything changed for two families in Ermelo, a town in Mpumalanga province, eastern South Africa, in the heart of South Africa’s coal country. It was the day 17-year-old Xolani Mthembu and his 14-year-old friend, Sifiso Yende, drowned in an abandoned coal mine in Wesselton on the northern outskirts of Ermelo. The mine was last owned by Imbabala Coal (Pty) Ltd.
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