For over a year mining company Michael Lee Enterprises has been operating in the ecologically sensitive Malolotja Nature Reserve in Eswatini. In February the king gave the company his blessing and ...

For over a year now, Michael Lee Enterprises (registered in Eswatini), a company with the same name as its Taiwanese owner, has been mining green chert from outcrops within Malolotja Nature Reserve.

The mine has the king’s blessing but no environmental authorisation. The sound of hydraulic rock breakers at work, hacking great chunks from the face of some of the oldest mountains in the world ...