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Xolobeni community fights to stop Wild Coast titanium mining

May 22, 2018 Leave a Comment

On the 23rd to the 24th of April, a historic court case for mining-affected communities took place at the North Gauteng High Court in Tshwane. The Amadiba Crisis Committee, represented by their lawyers Richard Spoors Inc. and the Legal Resources Centre, took the Department of Mineral Resources to court in an attempt to get a declaratory order that would prevent proposed … [Read more...]

Global support in wake of Wild Coast anti-mining assassination

April 6, 2016 1 Comment

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...]

Wild Coast doc to give special community screenings

June 30, 2015 2 Comments

What are the prospects - pros and cons to the local community - of titanium excavation along the pristine Wild Coast? Award-winning South African film maker Ryley Grunenwald’s The Shore Break is an environmental documentary, political thriller, family feud story, and classic David and Goliath tale. Filmed in Pondoland in the Eastern Cape, it follows pro- and anti-mining … [Read more...]

AmaMpondo’s rights threatened by Wild Coast irregularities

May 23, 2012 Leave a Comment

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A formal complaint has been lodged with the Public Protector against Sanral CEO Mr Nazir Alli with respect to his handling of an Unsolicited Bid received in 2001 for the N2 Wild Coast Toll road. Following storms of protest against Sanral's GFIP e-tolling scheme, it is now alleged that Mr Nazir Alli acted contrary to policy and good corporate governance principles to … [Read more...]

Wild Coast N2 concerns remain despite moratorium

November 2, 2011 Leave a Comment

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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...]

Caging the Wild Coast

October 31, 2011 Leave a Comment

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When rumours started flying that dune mining might be allowed at the Wild coast, tempers flared and serious discussions started happening around the water cooler. Fires were cooked all the way up to the minister of environmental affairs, and rightfully so. With so many protected areas on the brink of being exploited for the economic good of the country, environmentalists are … [Read more...]

Great green loo launch

October 21, 2011 Leave a Comment

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On Saturday 27 November, after many months of research, manual labor and foraging we finally had the official opening of our new green ablutions. They were built on a property of the Siyephu family, who run village based accommodation at Mbolompo, deep on the rural Wild Coast, less than 2 hour hike from the famous Hole in the Wall. The community business was started two … [Read more...]

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