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 “MACUA”
The government's failure to issue permits to small-scale miners, particularly in rural areas such as the chrome rich Sekhukhune has criminalised artisanal miners who mine on a small scale on tribal trust lands.
Security guards have shot and injured residents and police as the people of Mononono continue to be failed by organs of state in a battle…
In 2018 Millicent Shungube travelled to Australia to tell the owners of a mine operating in her township in Mpumalanga about the devastation it was…
KwaZulu-Natal community activists live in fear of unknown gunmen after their comrade was shot dead as protracted court battle over mining rights continues Lucas Ledwaba…
As activists prepare to hand over 50 000 petitions to government Nontsokolo Mhlotshana reflects on challenges affecting people living in mining areas Let me give…
The United Nations World Food Programme has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic will see more than a quarter of a billion people suffering acute hunger by the end of the year.