Apr 21 2016
Communities that oppose mining on their land have failed to understand the benefits it brings, Mineral and Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane said this week, three weeks after a prominent opponent of dune mining, Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, was murdered in the Eastern Cape.
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Apr 08 2016
The slain Amidiba Crisis Committee chairperson Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe was buried on Saturday at his home in Mdatya, Xolobeni, Eastern Cape.
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Mar 24 2016
“Bazooka” to his friends and Sikhosiphi Rhadebe to the mining investors he had opposed for a decade, the chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, who was murdered outside his own front door on Tuesday evening, was just the latest casualty in a growing number of community activists viciously targeted for their views.
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Feb 17 2016
Yesterday morning the Constitutional Court heard an application challenging the constitutionality of the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act 15 of 2014 (Amendment Act) which amended the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994 (Restitution Act). The applicants are the Land Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA), Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) and Nkuzi Development …
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Jan 26 2016
Or do too many politicians have a vested interest in his continued reign? Royal families of Bakgatla ba Kgafela in North West have finally been vindicated that their claim that Kgosi Nyalala Pilane, who has ruled since 1996, is not the correct leader of the platinum-rich community according to customary law. Nyalala Pilane’s reign has …
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