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...
Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Sinegugu Zukulu’s story of the Amadiba community’s struggle in Pondoland to keep the proposed N2 toll road and titanium mining off their land is an inspiring account. Sinegugu, who manages the protection of the extensive Mzimvubu mountain catchment area for...
