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N2 toll road on Wild Coast divides community

2 August 2021 | ARTICLE

By Daniel Steyn and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

...Xolobeni on the Wild Coast Part one: Battle to stop 22km long mine on Wild Coast Part two: N2 toll road on Wild Coast divides community Part three: Wild Coast: is there a future in eco-tourism? “Bo...

Battle to stop 22km long mine on Wild Coast

28 July 2021 | ARTICLE

By Daniel Steyn and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

...Xolobeni community. Photos: Daniel Steyn “Without land, we are nothing.” Bekeni Danca, 40, was born in Xolobeni village and fears that if the project of an Australian-based company to mine the mineral...

Elections 2021: Xolobeni voters may kick ANC out

8 July 2021 | ARTICLE

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Daniel Steyn

Neliswa Mdukisa, a subsistence farmer, tends her garden in Xolobeni. Photos: Daniel Steyn In the coastal region of the Amadiba Tribal Authority, a community’s resistance to a controversial mining dev...

Eastern Cape parents build their own school

30 June 2021 | ARTICLE

By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Daniel Steyn

The School Governing Body of Baleni Senior Secondary School near Xolobeni is using its limited funding to build new facilities without the assistance of the Department of Education. Photo: Daniel Ste...

Aussie mining company fires Mark Caruso as CEO

1 April 2021 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni has fired Mark Caruso as its CEO. Caruso is currently suing South African environmental lawyers, community activists and a social worker for defamation. Caruso has been convicted of drunken d...

West Coast mining magnate due in court in March on assault charges

16 February 2021 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni on Pondoland’s Wild Coast for more than a decade. A criminal charge of aggravated home burglary has been dropped against Mark Caruso, an Australian venture capitalist with strong South Afri...

SLAPPing back: Court checks corporate bullying

11 February 2021 | ARTICLE

By Lisa Chamberlain

...Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, despite strong resistance from the local community there. In a presentation made at a summer school on mining run by the University of Cape Town, Reddell, Davies and Cloe...

SLAPP in the face for Australian mining company

10 February 2021 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni and at the Tormin mineral sands mine on the West Coast, and/or to punish them for speaking out. The plaintiffs’ lawyers denied they were bringing a SLAPP suit, arguing that for legal proceedi...

Trial will shed light on Wild Coast violence

22 January 2021 | ARTICLE

By Fred Kockott

...Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project on the Wild Coast in December 2015. He is pictured here with victims and family members. Photo: Fred Kockott A trial related to an outbreak of violence over the Xolobeni...

SA-linked Aussie mining executive in trouble with the law at home

6 October 2020 | ARTICLE

By John Yeld

...Xolobeni on Pondoland’s Wild Coast for more than a decade. Caruso is suing South African lawyers and environmentalists for defamation over attempts to expand the West Coast mining operation. Controv...