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Karoo anti-uranium mining activists celebrate divestment plans with caution
While it seems reasonable to assume that Karoo locals should celebrate Peninsula Energy’s decision to divest their interests in the Karoo Uranium Proj...
Take action: Speak out against uranium mining in the Karoo before 7 September
The issue of the proposed uranium mining in the Karoo presents an occasion where we should be guided by our faith traditions. As custodians of God’s g...
Uranium mining update - a letter from Dr Stefan Cramer
Dear friends of the Karoo, Here is another update on the status of the application for uranium mining rights in the Karoo. We have until the end of t...
Milestones in our uranium mining and nuclear work
Makoma Lekalala and Liz McDaid signing the final replying affidavit. We have reached several important milestones in our nuclear court case and our w...
SAFCEI & ELA Jhb's Nuclear Campaign and Court Case
In 2014 SAFCEI became concerned by the indications given that South Africa’s energy future was being decided behind closed doors by foreign business i...
Lessons in geology and advocacy in Graaff-Reinet
By Louisa Feiter We have often featured articles on Dr Stefan Cramer’s work in the Karoo, firstly on fracking and now on the new danger of uranium min...
What legacy do we want for South Africa?
Stefan teaching the next generation of Earth Keepers about uranium mining. Photo: Erika Cramer In July we were excited to receive the news of a large...
Uranium is the dirty underbelly of nuclear - scientist
By Matthew le Cordeur This article was published in Fin24 Cape Town – Anti-nuclear sentiment tends to focus on nuclear waste or operational risks, but...
Dr Cramer's presentation of uranium mining in the Karoo
Dr Stefan Cramer, our Science Advisor, gave a very informative talk at the SAFCEI AGM on Tuesday 12 July. Here is the presentation he made on uranium...
Press release: Is uranium mining in the Karoo over before it even began?
PRESS RELEASE: Is uranium mining in the Karoo over before it even began? Mining application areas are down to 12% of original application. The beginni...
SAFCEI 2016 AGM
SAFCEI warmly invites all Earth Keepers to join us at our 2016 AGM and a talk on uranium mining in the Karoo by Dr Stefan Cramer. Date: 12th July Ti...
Nuclear and Uranium Mining Update
As reported by Dr Stefan Cramer and Liz McDaid Radiation Hotspot near Beaufort-West. Our work on nuclear and uranium mining continues in full-steam w...
Secrecy around nuclear and uranium
It has been 30 years since the devastating nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, which occurred on 26 April 1986. And last month brought the five year annive...
Submit your opposition to uranium mining
There are only a few days left to submit opposition against uranium mining in the Karoo, which closes on the 15 March. We urge all Earth Keepers to pl...
Uranium mining
The debate around nuclear until now has largely centred on how the procurement of nuclear energy is being done in secrecy and without proper consultat...
No End to Threats to the Karoo
By Dr Stefan Cramer Older inhabitants of the Central Karoo remember that in the 1950s the area around Beaufort-West in the Karoo was once the scene of...
Dolorites: The Guardians of the Karoo
The formation of the dolorites in the Karoo took place many thousands of years ago, yet today these formations are highly relevant in the fracking deb...
Shell gets cold feet in the Karoo
By Dr Stefan Cramer, SAFCEI Science Advisor Royal Dutch Shell is pulling its top shale-gas people out of South Africa, was the screaming headline news...