A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Dominionville is a village outside the gold mining town of Klerksdorp in the North West Province of South Africa. The story of Dominionville is the story of a village that rose when Uranium One a Canadian company set up operations. Then the people were dumped after the mines closed. Now the mine has been bought …
Community Alerts/Puseletso/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 After Justice and Peace monitors engaged Matlosana local municipality regarding houses built on wetland, considerable amount of work resulted in the Municipality considering relocating eight households to a more conducive environment. After residents discovered that they will finally be moved to another area next to Cocekani High school, their hearts were …
Community Alerts/Nyakalllo/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 This is one of the challenges facing our communities in our localities. One may argue that is a result of poor service delivery by local municipality, while others may argue is of members of the community not having anywhere to dispose of their waste. In Jouberton ext 11 between Zimele-Geqe primary …
Community Alerts/David Faanakgomo/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 Tigane community is one of the suffering communities due to the retrenchments of the mining sector. Hence it is suffering high rate of robbery and people being mugged. To the community’s surprise, with that high rate of robbery and mugging, its satellite police station is closed. Now the community and …
Community Alerts/Mahadio Mohapi/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 On Monday the 29th of June, the justice and Peace organised and participated in a picket to oppose the bail application of a suspect who was nailed for raping, killing and burning of the body of a now buried 15 year old Nombuyiselo Nombewu of Ext 7, Jouberton. We as …
Community Alerts/Tshepo Mmusi/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 It is sad and somehow disturbing to realise that after 23 years of hard earned democracy, the people who stay in farms struggle to access basic health care services. In our last week visit to the Rietkuil and Mantariana farms adjacent to the Shiva Uranium processing plant, people complained about …
Community Alerts/Modise Tlhako/Klerksdorp/02 June 2017 Next to the D1 and D2 un-functional shafts owned by Shiva uranium mine. We now see another project in motion. I honestly can’t say it’s a development project as it did not hire our poverty stricken people. At this stage, they are busy erecting a very long fence. I was …
Community Alerts/Mahadio/Klerksdorp-Justice and Peace/20 February 2017-03-03 As Catholic Justice and Peace Commission of Klerksdorp diocese , we wish to express our disappointment of the withdrawal of the case of human trafficking against the Nigerian who was a suspect in Klerksdorp Court today: Our Juridical system has a lot loopholes in promoting the human dignity, instead …
Community Alerts/ Nthabiseng Leshoe/ Dominionville- North West/ 22 November 2016 Dominionville has a problem when it comes to water, this problem started the day the water was disconnected from the mines pipelines. The matlosana local municipality has been the one supplying the dominionville residence with water. They do this by using water trucks; however it …
Community Alert/Modise Tlhako/Dominionville-North West/10 November 2016 Dominionville is a small village in Northwet province found in Dr KK khauda district in Matlosana local municipality. The village consist of the white and black community Dominionville is getting its electricity services from the service provider called Dirk Phyl investment (PTY)Ltd. The service provider is also rendering services …
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.
