Jun 19, 2017 | Earth Keepers, Environmental Advocacy
18 June 2017 Sustaining the Wild Coast (SWC) notes with interest the announcement of an 18-month moratorium on the Wild Coast mining. This notice gazetted by Minister of Mineral Resources Mosebenzi Zwane blocks “any mining or prospecting applications on the approved...
Aug 2, 2016 | Environmental Advocacy, Food and Climate Justice
South Africa’s wealth has been built on the back of extractive industries and the toil of Apartheid’s inhumane migrant labour system. Times have changed and political systems overturned but in our relentless pursuit of wealth, we are at risk of killing the goose that...
Apr 6, 2016 | Environmental Advocacy
It was with great shock and sadness that we heard of the assassination of anti-mining activist and Wild Coast community leader Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe in March, as well as the attack on the City Press journalists at his funeral. It shows that the destruction...
Mar 23, 2016 | Environmental Advocacy
Mining not only wreaks havoc on the surrounding environment, but destroys the social fabric of a community. It was with great sadness that we heard of the killing of Sikosiphe ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe, the Chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee. This murder follows on the...
