Keywords: Xolobeni Content: Articles Page: 8 of 9 Items: 89
18 July 2016 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
...Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. Mining in Xolobeni has been surrounded by controversy and violence. In March this year, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe the chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, a local or...
12 July 2016 | ARTICLE
By Mary-Anne Gontsana
Activists opposing the titanium mining project in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape are hoping for answers from the Department of Mineral Resources and the police at a community meeting next week. At the m...
25 May 2016 | ARTICLE
By Tariro Washinyira and GroundUp Staff
...Xolobeni. that is why we are not learning and living on subsistence farming. The government is lying. Mining will bring development.â The memorandum, amongst other demands, called for Xolobeni to be d...
21 April 2016 | ARTICLE
By Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Sithandiwe Yeni
The murder of Sikhosiphi âBazookaâ Rhadebe, a leading opponent of titanium mining in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, marks a crisis that has been building for over two decades around land and chiefs in ...
11 April 2016 | ARTICLE
By Tariro Washinyira
For the first time, the police are taking the situation in Xolobeni seriously, says Amadiba Crisis Committee secretary Nonhle Mbuthuma. Mbuthuma said the committee was âhappy with progressâ on the in...
1 April 2016 | ARTICLE
By Glenn Ashton
...Xolobeni but on the opposite, arid West Coast of South Africa, some 350 kilometres north of Cape Town. While MRC was granted permission to extract the zircon and rutile which constitute around 5% of t...
31 March 2016 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
...Xolobeni anti-mining activist Sikhosiphi âBazookaâ Rhadebe, a solidarity fund for the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) has been set up to assist Rhadebeâs family, for transport, and for continuing the s...
29 March 2016 | ARTICLE
By Kimon de Greef
Xolobeni activist Nonhle Mbuthuma broke down in tears last month while addressing a mining conference in Cape Town. âOur people are being attacked. People are dying because of this,â she said, describ...
23 March 2016 | ARTICLE
By GroundUp Staff
Opponents of the plan to mine titanium in the Xolobeni area in the Eastern Cape fear for their lives after the chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, was assassinated la...
23 February 2016 | ARTICLE
By John Capel and Hassen Lorgat
...Xolobeni to say “no to mining” is successful. The Xolobeni decision is based on strong organisation and knowledge about the failure of mining to deliver to people, and our 13 years working...