A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Profanação dos túmulos na antiga vila Chipanga, uma comunidade em Moatize pela Vale Desecration of the tombs in the old village , Chipanga a community in Moatize by Vale Close on 9 years ago, Vale the Brazilian mining corporation relocated thousands of family’s form Chipanaga, an area which they lived in over many generations. Coal …
Community Alerts, Mpumalanga, Phola/ Ogies, Jane Bhudha, 2018/09/11 On the 9th August around 4/ 5 o’clock in the morning, there was a big blasting of fire at kusile power station. The fire burner one of the building at kusile and it was closed for investigations until the cause of the fire was known. The fire …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Emalahleni, Vosman, Susan Moraba, 2018/09/11 Today at about 9:25 in the morning as I went to KG Mall in Vosman Emalahleni, the gates were closed and chub security as well as police vans were inside at the mall. When they opened the gates for people to come in, there was a danger …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Emalahleni, Susan Moraba, 2018/09/10 A wetland is a very important source of water as the people of ext 16 in Emalahleni are facing a challenge as some construction work is disturbing the wetland by digging up next to it, as said they are building a sewerage pump station. The contract is not …
Community alerts, Mpumalanga, Phola/ Ogies, Alice Motsepe, 2018/09/09 In Phola /Ogies the rate of unemployment is very high as students / youth that completed their Matric are still unemployed as mines are not employing them and supporting them with bursaries, learnerships or even internships.Most are unable to further their studies as their parent are unemployed …
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Since the start of mining in Solwezi, the population and traffic has increased in large numbers , especially mine related traffic. The roads are now in a bad state. The Solwezi Municipal council is in debt. It has arrived at a debt swap arrangement with Kansanshi mine which includes handing over responsibility for the development of …
Artisanal Mining, A Blessing and A Curse, Sekhukhune South Africa By Mmathapelo Thobajane Voice note 1 Hello I am Mmathapelo Thobajane , I am an activists in the Bench Marks Community Monitors school and a member of SEJN. Community Monitors have been monitoring the new “illegal” chrome mining activities in Sekhukhune land. “illegal” chrome …
Artisanal Mining , A Blessing and A Curse – Marange Zimbabwe By Billian Matambo August 2018 Voice Note 1 Hello everybody my name is Billian Matambo a Zimbabwean by nationality and I’m from Manicaland province from the popular Marange area where diamonds are being mined. I am a member of the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied …
Tunatazama is a southern African network of community organisations living near mines. This network is supported by The Benchmarks Foundation, Southern Africa Resource Watch, Zimbabwe Environment Law Association, Centre for Environment Justice, Associação de Apoio e Assistência Jurídica às Comunidades, Norwegian Church Aid - Tanzania, and the Maluti Community Development Forum.
