A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
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 …
/Community alerts/Francina Nkosi/Lephalale/31/12/2018, 9:57 PM] Tom burke is “ENEL GREEN POWER” solar project located in Seleka under Lephalale Municipality in Limpopo. Started in 2014 ,It is 66MW capacity project that feeds 122 GWh into the National Grid, supplying electricity to nine villages . Lephalale is very rich in Coal and is a very hot …
Community alerts/Cliford Mohuba/Atok, Monametse/28/12/2018, 8:24 PM] During the windy season it’s even worse as village surrounding Bokoni platinum mine will be covered with a cloud of dust from Bokoni platinum mine’s mine dumps as the mine is now placed under care and maintained the tailing dams become dry and very toxic to the community as …
Community alerts/Katlego Malesa/Ga-Makgopa village/23/12/2018, 2:44 PM] Its been a rainy session and we are grateful for the rain that provides water for us in the village but its also danger to this community of Ga-Makgopa village in the Sekhukhune Fetakgomo -Tubatse municipality where the ore that where left not closed are putting our kids at …
Community alerts/Katlego Malesa/Ga-Makgopa village/23/12/2018, 10:38 AM] Ga- Makgopa village is a small community in Sekhukhune Fetakgomo -Tubatse where people and families relied on the Twickenham mine for jobs and stability but ever since the mine closed down is difficult for some community members and their families to get job, whereby they also relied on the …
Community alerts/Mmabore Mogashoa/ Janefurse, Ga-Mogashoa /15/12/2018, 10:25 PM] Maphungubwe arts festival exhibition was held in Polokwane, Library Gardens from 10-14 December 2018. The exhibition was part of the Maphungubwe Arts Festival that was held on 15 December 2018 at Polokwane Cricket Club. The festival is held once a year. Accommodation was in Polokwane where the …
Community alerts/Eunice Mampa/Ga-Mampa/14/12/2018, 10:40 AM] Fetakgomo- Tubatse municipality Sekhukhune district at Ga- Mampa we have road construction from Sefateng Chrome Mine which is from Ga- Phasha to Mampa village but the mine didn’t consult our royal house so the community stopped the project , so that the mine should consider that before doing anything at …
Community alerts/ Mmathapelo Thobejane/ Ditwebeleng village/18-11-2018, 11:24 AM] It’s been 2 months now the community of Ga-mashabela and Modimole on strike the community trap the electric cables that supply Hackney mine its been a while this situation happing at first it was happening during the night only but since the past 3 weeks the electricity …
Community alerts/Andries Mocheko/ Lephalale/14-11-2018, 10:43 PM] Tsa-Lephalale (Marapong township) After Waterberg Environmental Justice Forum (WEJF) received several complaints and engage with our local Municipality about the issue, the plant was visited on 12 Monday November 2018, together with our local newspaper Mogol post. The plant could be entered without any security measures. The “new” plant …
Community alerts/ Morgan Selowa/Atok, Mmalingine section/14-11-2018, 6:03 PM] As residents of Monametse village (Atok) we are getting sick each an everyday because of dusty road that used by big trucks of zama-zama and trucks of Bokoni platinum mine they don’t even bother them-selves to maintain that road and that dust affect us via intake and …
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.
