A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Community Alerts, Lorraine Kakaza, Mpumalanga, Carolina, 2019/01/07 The SANAMI Committee Provincial Alternative Mining Indaba’s(Pami’s) & South African National Alternative Mining Indaba SANAMI…held a planery meeting at Northriding ,Johannesburg on the 07-08 January 2019 Preparation and drafting of a programme for PAMIs with All provinces present. we are preparing ,empowering community members so that they can …
Community Alerts, Yvonne Sampear, Mpumalanga, Phola-Ogies, Emalahleni, 2019/01/08 #WITBANK_CPF #PROTEST_ACTION_WARNING WITBANK & VOSMAN : CLOSURE OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE EMALAHLENI MUNICIPALITY : 2019/01/08 @ 07:00 The community of the “Township” (Ackerville/Lynville/Thusanang), as they refer to themselves, are planning to close the entrances to the eMalahleni municipality tomorrow morning. They are dissatisfied because the feel …
Community Alerts, Lorraine Kakaza, Mpumalanga, Carolina, 2019/01/12 A 77 years old Gogo Ester Khumalo residing at Enkanini in Carolina Location Mpumalanga Province is the recent victim of Lawlessness police brutality in Mpumalanga Province. All this after the defenceless old gogo tried to make ends meets after a coal carriage train derailed from its railway in …
Community Alerts, community monitors, 2019/01/05 The bill for the expropriation of land has been published in the National Gazette for comment. Interestingly, it was done with no announcement, in the quiet, and just before Christmas… Please share far and wide, to ensure maximum reach and awareness. This is not just talk, anymore. If you are …
Community Alerts, community monitors, 2018/12/14 Mantashe appeal: We’ll fight you all the way, vows Xolobeni community
Community Alerts,Benerd Ngomane, Mpumalanga, Nkomazi, Nelspruit, 2018/12/10 In Mpumalanga lowveld region in (Nkomazi), on the 8 and 9 December 2018 we had the first rainfall that flowed through out as the land was dry and rivers as well as streams were running dry. The water filled up to the streams and rivers after a devastating …
Community Alerts, Mpumalanga, Lorraine Kakaza, Carolina, 2018/12/08 DAY 5 Date:07/12/2018 Site visit with Wamua Expect the unexpected CRU community Rental Unit. Sishen Kumba iron ore is bullying people into relocation from Dingleton to Siyathemba Location… Two families are forced to pay R3500.00 each while they are sharing 3 and half room of which is two …
Community Alerts, Lorraine Kakaza, Mpumalanga, Carolina, 2018/11/04 Imbabala mine started it’s operation in 1994 – 2009 .The mine is situated in Ermelo Weslton Mpumalanga province … what we have experience today was touching and painful at the same time to see how marginalised Communities have to bear the blunder of these multinational corporations. We could …
Community Alerts, Lorraine Kakaza, Mpumalanga, Carolina, 2018/11/02 Middelburg Environmental Justice Network(MEJN) in Mpumalanga Middelburg was visited. A site visit at a mine called Black Wattle mine near Middleburg town was visited where we have met the community that has been relocated by the mine last year and they started staying there from 1991 and they …
Community alerts/Katlego Malesa/Ga-Makgopa village/06/01/2019, 2:34 PM Today on 4 January 2019 at Ga-Makgopa village 3 people where buried alive from the illegal chrome where sand and rocks fell on top of two ladies and one boy aged 8 years, they where all taken to hospital where there are still in a critical condition. it is …
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.
