A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Christophe Kabwita/Lubumbashi/28thJuly2017 Sur l’avenue Kiwele de la Ruashi reliant les usines et carrières de CHEMAF à ses usines de la commune Kampemba poussières aux passages des camions transportant minerai et d’ autres des résidus acidifiés le tout non bâchés Trucks transporting ore from the quarries of the Ruashi mine to the CHEMAF factory. They drive …
Community Alerts/ Sbu Hlolweni/Secunda-Mpumalanga/20 August 2017 The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is a leadership program, organized by the White House in Washington (USA). The program was started by former president of United States of America, Mr. Barak Obama with the aim to train African leaders and to shape a better future of Africa. The …
Community Alerts/Tokelo Mahlakwane/Sekutlong-Limpopo/23 August 2017 Sekutlong is a small village that has been here for a long time. The village has been drinking water from the river.This river is is polluted by Acid Mine Drainage and makes the community suffer. The municipality use to deliver water around the village but now they stopped doing this …
Community Alerts/ Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/19 August 2017 We were workshop today with Susan Moraba at life-love at Emalahleni run by the Centre for Environmental Rights on the 19 /08/2017 We learnt about the right to information on the challenges we face as a community. We looked at the emission standards for the coal mining industry. This …
Community Alerts/Tokelo Mahlakwane/Sekutlong-Limpopo/23 August 2017 Today we had meetings with the Department of Agriculture and students from university of venda. This meeting was attended by , the owner of the cows and me as member of SEJN. The meeting was called after a cow died at Morapaneng village next to sewage. When we arrived there …
Community Alerts/Eunice Mampa/Ga-Mamapa/22 August 2017 We had meeting with mayor Hlatswayo , deputy mayor and other executives of the Mampa municipality. Unfortunately we didn’t meet the right person. W were looking for(councilor Maisela), but we tried to raise our issues . We were there for a follow-up meeting. We held meetings at the Tubatse municipality …
Community Alerts/Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/21 August 2017 Today residents from the communities of Vosman , Emalahleni protested for RDP houses Residents from Vosman “all zones”, Lynville,Kwaguqa, and Corrination protested since Friday 18/08/2017 ,Saturday, Sunday and today on the 21/08/2017 they. They demanded RDP houses which are being built next to Pineridge. Some of the houses are finished …
Community Alerts/Lorraine Kakaza/Carolina-Mpumalanga/19 August 2017 A water clinic course for civil society practioners was held at Middelburg at the Nkangala district Mpumalanga province South Africa as from the 15 to 17 of August 2017. The aim of this course is to work collectively, networking and communication , so that we can save our water at …
Community Alerts/Neria /Ga-Magobading-Limpopo/19 August 2917 Mo ke ditoilet tsa bana ba rmo community ya magobading tsa chreche bana ba rena ga na kgone gore ba kaya toilet ka baka la gore e bopilwe ka mobu mola e le gore O ka nore kgane ngwana o ile toilet kgane o hwetse ka gare ga yona ,ge …
Community Alerts/ Neria/Mogobading-Limpopo/17 August 2017 The community of magobading was relocated by the mine, since from 2012 the community argued that the ceiling are falling apart and in 2015 the mine promised of the house owners gore batla mo tshelela celling ye engwe ebile e ya hlohlona ge babutse mafestere go tsena moya e ya …
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.
