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Wild Coast battle to save land from mining

12 February 2016 | ARTICLE

Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Paul Botes (with permission of the Mail & Guardian)

...Xolobeni during the 10-year dispute over mining in the area. (Paul Botes, M&G) A Xolobeni village home. (Paul Botes, M&G) The slopes of the Xolobeni land where mealie crops are grown. (P...

Court case exposes violence in Wild Coast mining dispute

12 January 2016 | ARTICLE

By Mary-Anne Gontsana

...Xolobeni Mineral Sands and is located in Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. (See map below.) According to the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), an organisation opposed to the mining of the Xolobeni mineral ...

State accused of letting Tormin damage West Coast

11 December 2015 | ARTICLE

Mary-Anne Gontsana

...Xolobeni on the Eastern Cape’s Wild Coast. Among other breaches, Tormin is accused of expanding the mine without authorisation under the National Environmental Management Act; mining garnet in violati...

West Coast mine boss must go, say staff

6 November 2015 | ARTICLE

Mary-Anne Gontsana

...Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. Weeks of labour turmoil at the mine on the arid coast 400km north of Cape Town started when workers launched a five-week strike on September 4. Tormin hit back with a locko...

Mining company “lied” to its shareholders

6 November 2015 | ARTICLE

GroundUp Staff with AmaBhungane

...Xolobeni in the Bizana district. In its mid-year report to shareholders, MRC, which is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, said that “good progress” had been made on the ground at Xolobeni betwee...

Lawyers in black and white: Spoor vs Boqwana

23 October 2015 | ARTICLE

Pasika Nontshiza and John GI Clarke

...Xolobeni again, and perhaps to share with them what lessons he has learned, what regrets he has and what he proposes to do about the problems that the Xolobeni Empowerment Company that he formed has c...

Striking west coast mine workers suspended

19 October 2015 | ARTICLE

Barbara Maregele

...Xolobeni titanium project in the Eastern Cape. The company refused to comment. Fredericks said NUM planned on challenging the suspensions at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration ...

West coast mine workers in court

9 October 2015 | ARTICLE

Barbara Maregele and Bernard Chiguvare

...Xolobeni titanium project in the Eastern Cape. Accused number 10, Frans Bam, a ward councillor and executive member of the Vredendal council, was excused from proceedings. After failing to reach an ag...

Strike at West Coast sand mine turns nasty

23 September 2015 | ARTICLE

Mary-Anne Gontsana

...Xolobeni titanium project in the Eastern Cape, which is being opposed by residents of the area. Tormin employs about 250 people. After failed negotiations at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation...