South Africa’s tailings dams: A regulatory nightmare with deadly consequences
A recent study by the CSOs Tailings Working Group found that only 29 tailings dams are registered in terms of the law. That is out of approximately 337 tailings dams that the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) had in its database as at 2023.The study also noted that about 180 were too small in scale to qualify as "dams with a safety risk" and therefore were not required to […]