A Network of Southern African Communities Living Near Mines
Community Alerts/Lentswe Buda/Motlhabe-Rustenburg/16/05/18 Motlhabe community provides more than 9 villages in and around ward 6. For 19 years of operating both day and night till year 2016 when the clinic stopped working at night. For two years now since May 2016 the clinic operates from 07:00 to 14:00. The community as a whole arranged a …
Community Alerts/Thokozile Mntambo/Snakepark-Soweto/25/04/18 Potholes are a structural failure in the road surface usually asphalt pavement due to water in the underlying soil structure and passing over the affected area. This is the Road between block 1 and 2 residents in Snake park, it has more than one pothole. Many drivers are devested especially during raining …
Community Alerts/Wonderkop concerned resident/Rustenburg-Wonderkop/11/04/18 On the 10th of March 2018 Saturday morning a strike took place were by the people from Nkaneng section, an informal settlement which is a home to surrounding mine workers who are unable to afford rent, opted for living out allowance to living in a hostel and those who preferred owing …
Community Alerts/Moshabi Selowa/Limpopo-Malengine section Monametsi/13/02/18 Malengine relocated residents are taken out of their houses after paid R6000.00 for temporary accommodation this happened at Monametse village under Tubatse municipality which bonded with Fetakgomo municipality which located in Limpopo. The following house numbers are to be demolished: House no. 07,11,18 and 42. The rest of the houses …
Community Alerts/Rapule Moiloa/Soweto-Gauteng/12/02/18 There are houses in Mogase view that walls have become the bushes and where bushes are water stands. Residents end up doing the work that is supposed to be done by the Cllr, cosmopolitan maybe the bank for which residents pay their bonds at Cutting of bushes in the yards turns to …
Community Alerts/Elton Thobejane/Sekhukhune-Limpopo/06 Oct 17 What transpired today at the meeting of maotši Cluster is that the community of Morapaneng comprised of (morapaneng Village, Dithabaneng Village and Dikgopheng Village) have resolved not to participate in the elections because the does not want to be clustered with Ditwebeng and Manjekane villages. as the community we have …
Community Alerts/ Goitse Morake/ Rustenburg-Motlhabe/ 20 September 2016 MOTLHABE MY HOME I was born here I grew up loving and respecting your peace Loratong ke go rolela hutshe Ke itse fa ke babalesegile What happened to you? Is it because of platinum and chrome you changed? You practice crime and violence daily Polao le …
Community Alerts/ Kenny Phalose Thekwane-Rustenburg/ 01 September 2016 Special assignment crew interviews Madibana community and leadership at the momemnt on mining negative impacts, relationship with Royal Bafokeng Authority and government Madibana are using this golden opportunity to tell South African that traditional leadership bill is used everyday since it was imposed by Boers and MPRDA …
Edgar and Joe ( a tradtional chief) from Karroo, anti-fracking activsits with Mandla Jwili form EEO in Ekuhuruleni.
Loraine Kakaza/Mpumalanga/27thJuly 2016 On the 26/007/2016 we had a nice performance at the Mining and Environment Justice Conference , performed by the Mpumalanga Youth Against Climate Change and their play is called “Pain of the Olifants River” I then interviewed them and asked why the pain of the Olifants river. This is what they said …
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.
