Locating our struggles for environmental justice and protecting our human rights through forcing mining companies to comply with legal guidelines and to work with communities on the issues concerning our livelihoods within the greater struggle for economic freedom, as poor and rural mine affected communities, is a critical call to action for mobilizing and organizing the youth around understanding the importance of having our voices heard through solidifying our collective power as communities as we’re burdened with the responsibility to carry the baton forward towards realizing socio-economic justice in our lifetime and protecting our homes.
Posts tagged as “land”
It’s early December yet the landscape on the farms in Onverwacht, near Polokwane in Limpopo, is a dull brown and dry. Red dust rises into…
The Land Claims Court of South Africa has ordered that a family that has had their land rights taken away under apartheid be compensated financially…
It is early morning, and Michael Lokuru Kuri is taking his cattle out to graze as he does every day when the sun rises, to…
Commercial farmer Thabitha Chauke is preparing to expand her operations by another 600 hectares after harvesting 500 hectares of sunflower in May. It’s been a…
A community which has waited more than two decades for their land claim to be resolved has expressed disappointment at being given just five minutes…
JK saw very little of him and his most vivid memories of his father date from 1936 when he was nine years old. Many mine workers were afflicted by a fatal dust-induced lung disease – silicosis or miners’ phthisis. Those who developed the illness were often sent home so that the mines did not have to pay the costs of treatment or provide compensation. Mahudu was diagnosed with the disease in 1936 and sent home.
The Marapyane Bakgatla Primary Cooperative is the beneficiary of the Grain Project by the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Land and Environmental Affairs (DARDLEA)
Deputy Minister calls on Communal Property Associations (CPAs) to assist government by working together to resolve conflicts as department awaits final audit report THE Bathlabine…
Experts are warning that overfishing and pollution of the oceans have depleted natural fish stocks alarmingly in South Africa. The result is that in the…