A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Community Alerts/ Jomo Khumalo/Ekurhuleni/ 16 June 2017 According to the police people invaded the land that does not belong to them because they have been promise that they will build houses for them in that area by their local Councillor. It’s been years now and they have been waiting. So they started to build shacks …
Community Alerts/ Sandile Nombeni/ Ekurhuleni/31 May 2017 Since mid 2015 Ekurhuleni Environmental Organisation had last opposed the decommissioning and construction of a Waste Incinerator license that was proposed by Western Platinum Refineries (Lonmin PTY,LTD) in Kwa-Thema Reedville, on Monday 29th May Ekurhuleni Environmental Organisation has received an invitation from Jones & Wagener an Engineering and …
Community Alerts/ Luyanda Ntombela/ Ekurhuleni/31 May 2017 In Kwa-Tsaduza( Kwa-Thema, Duduza and Tsakane) we have a challenge of theft of copper taps as a result they are replaced with plastic ones. This initiative contributes to the problem of leaking taps, considering the challenge of rusted pipes due to old infrastructure and the non- maintenance of …
Community Alerts/ Qedusizi Masina/Ekurhuleni/31 May 2017 Sechaba Primary school is one of the schools that were vandalized and it has become a big hazard for the safety of our children. Sechaba P. School is based in Kwa Thema which is situated in the East of Johannesburg in Ekurhuleni Municipality. In 2014 the school yard of …
Community Alerts/ Mandla Jwili/Ekurhuleni /26 May 2017 On the 26th May we had meeting in our office in Kwa Thema in Ekurhuleni with visitors, students from Fordham university school of law in New York namely Christopher Ziemba, Olivia Scandura and Zenande Booi. Purpose of their visit here is to conduct a research on how mining …
Community Alerts/Sandile/ Ekurhuleni /25 May 2017 Anglo Coal has been doing its consultation processes in Springs for Coal Canyon project that will start from Springs to Heidelberg which would cover communities like Endicott, Bakerton, Springs, Kwa-Thema, Tsakane, Duduza, Dunottor, Selcourt, Weldgeducht, Struighbelt, Daggafontein, etc which means that the far East Rand would now be facing …
Community Alerts/ Jomo/Ekurhuleni/23 May 2017 Kwa Thema is situated east of Jo’burg under Ekurhuleni local municipality. These cables have been lying unattended for almost for a week. Municipality technicians were installing electricity for Kwa Thema Ext.8 residents and left main transmission boxes and cables lying around as you can see in the picture. This is a …
Community Alerts/Sabatini/EEO-Ekhuruleni/21 April 2017 Fraser Alexandra tailings dam in Brakpan Ekurhuleni is used for re-mining the minerals from mine dumps. The tailing is supporting Ergo gold to re-mine the minerals. As we were monitoring, we observed that only black people do the hard cheap labour as per our interview with Mxolisi and Rendani; they mentioned …
Community Alerts/Meshack Mbangula/Ekhuruleni –EEO/06 March 2017 Meshack Mbangula,Chairperson and founder of Ekhuruleni Environmental Organization and MACUA national coordinator paid the family of a five year old boy who fell in a hole of a mining activity which was left without rehabilitation. Hole that Richard fell into This is Mohlala ‘s family “As we see the …
Community Alerts/Sabatini Motloung/Ekurhuleni-EEO/22 February 2017 A place in Germiston called Jerusalem where community people live beside and on top of the tailings dam. They are not aware of the dangers of AMD. They live there because the Gold One mine did not rehabilitate their land and did not do proper waste management. Vlakfontein AMD …
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.
