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 … [Read more...]
Time to appeal the toll road
The Wild Coast continues to be under threat from both the application to undertake sand dune mining and the N2 toll highway. The record of decision (ROD) for the N2 toll road was released on 19 April. Objections need to be made before 19th May. SAIFCEI (Southern African Interfaith Environment Initiative) have asked for an extension to this deadline, but were told that DEAT … [Read more...]
Wild Coast N2 concerns remain despite moratorium
Sustaining The Wild Coast (SWC) welcomes the recent decision by Minister Ndebele for a review of tolling as a means of financing road construction. This decision provides a partial vindication of SWC's decade long campaign against the N2 Wild Coast toll road proposal and public concerns about the exclusion of the social and economic impacts of tolling in the EIA … [Read more...]