Keywords: Xolobeni Content: Articles Page: 5 of 9 Items: 89
4 December 2018 | ARTICLE
By Zoë Postman
...Xolobeni community did not share the same sentiment as Zukulu about this “Berlin wall [the highway] that will separate the community and they will never get over it”. “This is an application by one ma...
23 November 2018 | ARTICLE
By Wilmien Wicomb
...Xolobeni community, after the name of one of the villages in the area — in the face for more than a decade. The sands of the coastline where they have lived for centuries, is rich in titanium. For yea...
22 November 2018 | ARTICLE
By Zoë Postman
...Xolobeni, a village in Umgungundlovu on the Wild Coast. “Right now we are so happy, I can’t even explain it,” said Siyabonga Ndovela who has lived in Xolobeni for 26 years. “Xolobeni is our land and o...
29 October 2018 | ARTICLE
By John Yeld
...Xolobeni in Pondoland – Fourie asked the council to investigate and take action. In July, the Right2Know Campaign, supported by 92 other organisations and lawyers’ groups, also condemned Tripathi’s so...
26 October 2018 | ARTICLE
By Kim Reynolds
...Xolobeni community. Johan Lorenzen of Richard Spoor Attorneys said that the precedent from the court decision set out that no mining could take place until compensation is agreed upon in advance and t...
15 October 2018 | ARTICLE
By Kim Reynolds
Human rights lawyer Richard Spoor has been charged with assault for pointing his finger at a police officer. Spoor is an attorney for Xolobeni residents opposed to mining in this remote part of the Wi...
8 October 2018 | ARTICLE
By Nomfundo Xolo and Thembela Ntongana
...Xolobeni] to say no [to mining]. We know the comrades from Xolobeni are also being targeted. It is happening across the country,” said Notywala The march also highlighted the deaths of other activists...
1 October 2018 | ARTICLE
By Thembela Ntongana
“We do not know if my father’s murder will ever be solved,” says Tarzan Rhadebe, the son of murdered Xolobeni activist Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe. Two and a half years after the assassination, there ...
26 September 2018 | ARTICLE
By Kim Reynolds
...Xolobeni and will be able to take a more informed decision moving forward, on the moratorium as well as on other matters pertaining to Xolobeni.” In a statement on Monday, Amnesty International condem...
21 September 2018 | ARTICLE
By Kimberly Reynolds
...Xolobeni. This is the area on the Wild Coast where anti-mining activist Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe was murdered in March 2016. The moratorium follows a court case on whether community consent is neede...