Anti-mining activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe addresses a meeting. Image: Law Resource Centre of South Africa
Following the brutal murder of the ACC Chairman Bazooka Rhadebe, there has been an unbelievable global groundswell of support given in aid of the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) and Sustaining The Wild Coast (SWC)’s mission to stop the extractive, cultural and environmentally destructive Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Limited (MRC) from destroying the ancestral home of the Amadiba on the Wild Coast of South Africa.
To date, a total of 193 local and international Civil Society organisations and over 8000 individuals have added their names to our cause.
Strength in unity provides encouragement
In unity lies strength, and we are incredibly heartened that with the support and encouragement of all our new friends from around the world, the road upon which we walk will be that much lighter.
The ACC and SWC would like to personally thank each and every one of the following organisations for raising their voices in support of their cause.
They would also like to extend an invitation to all others who would like to join them in their struggle.
The response to their fundraising drive has also been incredible.
The list of highly appreciated supporters includes:
- 350 Africa
- ActionAid
- African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB)
- AIDS Foundation South Africa
- Alternative Information & Development Centre (AIDC)
- Awesome South Africa
- Bench Marks Foundation
- Bertha Foundation
- Biowatch SA
- Black Sash
- Bua Mining Communities
- Cala University Students Association (CALUSA)
- Cape Town TV
- Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)
- Centre for Civil Society, Durban
- Centre for Environmental Rights (CER)
- Centre for Human Rights
- Co-operative and Policy Alternative Center (COPAC)
- Coastal Links South Africa (CLSA)
- Community Media Trust (CMT)
- Democracy Works Foundation
- Democratic Left Front South Africa
- Diakonia Council of Churches
- Economic Justice Network (EJN)
- Equal Education (EE)
- Equal Education UCT Society
- South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC)
- Football Against Apartheid
- Fossil Free South Africa
- Freedom Under Law (FUL)
- GenderCC Southern Africa
- Greenpeace Africa
- groundWork
- Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF)
- Institute for Economic Research on Innovation (IERI)
- Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR)
- International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG)
- International Socialist Movement: South Africa
- Inyanda National Land Movement
- Johannesburg Anglican Environmental Initiative (JAEI)
- Keep Left (Socialism from Below)
- Khanyisa Upliftment Trust
- Khulumani Support Group
- Lawyers For Human Rights
- UCT Left Students Forum (UCTLSF)
- Marikana Support Campaign
- Masifundise Development Trust
- Media Monitoring Africa (MMA)
- Media Policy and Democracy Project
- Mining and Environmental Justice Community Network of South Africa (MEJCON-SA)
- Mineral Policy Institute (MPI)
- Ndifuna Ukwazi (NU)
- Noordhoek Environmental Action Group (NEAG)
- Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM)
- Open Secrets
- Oxfam South Africa
- Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE)
- Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG)
- People’s Assembly
- Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
- Quaker Peace Centre
- Right2Know Campaign
- South African Rural Women’s Assembly
- Social Justice Coalition (SJC)
- Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI-SA)
- Sonke Gender Justice
- South African Food Sovereignty Campaign (SAFSC)
- South African History Archive (SAHA)
- South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA)
- Southern African Faith Communities’ Environment Institute (SAFCEI)
- STEPS
- SLSJ: Students for Law and Social Justice
- Thanda
- The Gaia Foundation
- The Green Times
- The John Lynch Afrikan Education Programme (JLAEP)
- People’s Health Movement South Africa (PHM-SA)
- Thembelihle Crisis Committee (TCC)
- Timbila Poetry Project
- Treatment Action Campaign (TAC)
- Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE)
- UCT PASMA
- South African Unemployed Peoples’ Movement
- United Front South Africa
- United Front Western Cape
- War on Want
- Wilderness Foundation
- Women’s Legal Centre
- WoMin African Alliance
- Zandvlei Trust
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