Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane has declared an 18-month moratorium on mining in Xolobeni, on the Eastern Cape Wild Coast.
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Jul 29 2016
Community celebrates as iron mine plan shelved
Ululation, songs and slogans set the tone at Makhasaneni near Melmoth in KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday when scores of community members gathered to celebrate the decision by Indian company Jindal Africa to shelve an application to mine their land.
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Apr 21 2016
Minister gives priority to mines over communities
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
Assassinated anti-mining activist laid to rest
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
Murder deepens the mining nightmare for rural communities
“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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