Pondoland Wild Coast Xolobeni mining threat, South Africa
The minister of mineral resources will have to obtain full and formal consent from the Xolobeni community prior to granting mining rights, the Pretoria High Court ordered on Thursday.The Amadiba Crisis Committee launched a court battle against the department of mineral resources and Australian company Transworld Energy and Mineral Resources ...
South Africa: Groundbreaking Court Judgment On Mining …
This judgment is a significant victory for the Umgungundlovu community who have successfully brought several court challenges resisting the commencement of mining operations in Xolobeni.
Social licences and community rights: An …
In the 2010 case of Bengwenyama Minerals (Pty) Ltd v Genorah Resources, the Constitutional Court expounded the meaning of "consultation" between mining companies and communities, holding that landowners must …
Gwede Mantashe hits KZN to quell anti-mining sentiment
He will also be visiting the Xolobeni area on the Wild Coast‚ where an Australian-backed, dune-mining venture has been put on hold following the unsolved murder of prominent anti-mining leader Bazooka Radebe. ... Nonetheless‚ sight cannot be lost of the real and long-term impacts that mining operations have on communities and surrounding ...
Xolobeni judgment to be appealed
Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe confirmed on Wednesday that he was going to appeal the Xolobeni judgment of the Pretoria High Court. That judgment, in November, held that the Mineral ...
Answers to: Write an essay about Xolobeni Case Study and …
The Xolobeni case study serves as a reminder that the transition to a green economy requires careful consideration of the trade-offs between economic development and environmental sustainability. In this case, the proposed mining activities have sparked fierce opposition from the local community, who have raised concerns about the potential ...
Xolobeni
Mark, born in 1962, arrived on the South African mining scene in around 2001, when he and his elder brother Joseph established MRC Resources, the South African entity that controls two local prospects: The Tormin mineral sands project on the West Coast, where mining operations began controversially in 2014, and the Xolobeni project.
Dirty deeds: how to stop Australian miners abroad being linked …
Rio Tinto's mineral sands mine near Richards Bay, north of Durban. Plans for similar operation in the Xolobeni region south of Durban have been resisted by the local community.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: THE CASE OF THE …
development rather than environmental protection. The proposed mining project was known as the Xolobeni mining development project within the Amadiba Tribal Authority, an area dominated by Pondos or (Mpondos). The Xolobeni area is located between the Mzamba and Mtentu Rivers, covering some 2 867 hectares, and
The story is not just Xolobeni: What the Australian mining company …
The Australian mining company seeking the right to mine in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has been lashed for its treatment of a community in the Western Cape where it has been accused of breaching its legal obligations. ... In 2015, the company's Tormin mine began operations with the rights to mine 15km of beach along the coast of the ...
Assassinated anti-mining activist knew his life was …
Six weeks later, her friend and colleague Sikhosiphi 'Bazooka' Rhadebe was assassinated. A bid by Australian firm Mineral Commodities (MRC) to extract titanium from dunes near Xolobeni, a rural settlement at the …
Mining companies required to consult with communities a
The Xolobeni community in this case contended that the grant of the mining right to the mining company constitutes a "deprivation" which triggers the requirement for consent. In this case, the Court was satisfied that the granting of the mining right indeed amounted to deprivation as the mining operations would interfere substantially with ...
Lessons from 14 years of sustained activism in Xolobeni
With few resources, the communities of Xolobeni have been fighting mining companies, and the government's support for the mining of their land, since 2007. Our goal was to learn how such remote, rural communities have managed to organise and fight the tremendous might and power of the state and a well-resourced mining company for more than 14 ...
Struggle for the sands of Xolobeni
Its analysis reveals the captured South African state as the leading agent of "slow violence", and argues that this conflict is indicative of a larger crisis of democracy. It also …
South African Operations
The Company, via its 50% owned South African subsidiary Mineral Sands Resources (Pty) Ltd ("MSR"), is a leading producer of zircon, rutile, garnet and ilmenite concentrates through its globally highest-grade Mineral Sands Operation at Tormin, located on …
Against the odds
Meanwhile, Caruso continued to sing the benefits his mining operation would bring to Xolobeni. On a bumpy, windy, panoramic trip to Xolobeni in August 2016, I was privileged to overhear a Radio 702 interview during which Caruso outlined his and his company's virtues while my companion, a young activist, waited to speak.
Social licences and community rights: An assessment of the Xolobeni …
In the 2010 case of Bengwenyama Minerals (Pty) Ltd v Genorah Resources, the Constitutional Court expounded the meaning of "consultation" between mining companies and communities, holding that landowners must be informed in sufficient detail of prospecting or mining operations that will take place on their land, and that there must be a good ...
Groundbreaking court judgment on mining and community …
Xolobeni, a remote area in rural Eastern Cape, has been a battleground over mining rights. Archive photo: Thembela Ntongana. The Umgungundlovu community, located in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has won an important case in the Gauteng High Court that enables communities to meaningfully consult with companies that want to conduct mining …
South African anti-mining activist assassinated in Xolobeni
The man spearheading the push for mining in Xolobeni, Zamile Qunya, said claims that most Amadiba residents are against mining are subjective, emotive and baseless, and have been disproved by a public participation process. ... Much is at stake: the Xolobeni operation, with a lifespan of more than 20 years, promises to be richer and longer ...
Tormin Mineral Sands Operation
Mining. Mining at Tormin is a free dig operation using conventional trucking and excavation utilising mobile excavators, front-end loaders and trucks. Historically, the Company has mined between 2.5 and 2.7 million tonnes of ore annually with ore trucked to a Primary Beach and Secondary Concentrator Plant located directly adjacent to the mining ...
Mining Weekly
The community of Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape have reiterated that they do not want a mine in their area, despite the Department of Mineral Resources supposed intentions to issue mining rights.
Are We Attracting the Wrong Kind of Mining Entrepreneurs …
Picture: Anti-Mining Protestors in Xolobeni courtesy United Front. ... interaction has proven the Department to be remarkably un-transparent and non-responsive to enquiries about MRC's mining operations, which should be in the public domain. Since DMR assumed oversight of environmental compliance the flow of information on mining in general ...
Struggle for the sands of Xolobeni
1. Introduction. In South Africa, natural resource extraction has long been the foundation of processes of primitive accumulation (Harvey, 2003), forming the bedrock of economic activity.Accordingly, struggles for control over land and resources have been a constant feature of this country's history, from the first European contact by the Portuguese, throughout …
The final shape of South Africa's new mining charter
"For 12 years, the people of Xolobeni have waged a struggle against mining in Pondoland. The DMR has shown lack of proper consultation with communities; lack of cost benefit analysis… What the rising tensions between communities, DMR and a local pro-mining group have illustrated, is that mining is being pushed at all costs, with disregard ...
High court gives Australian mining company a big SLAP(P)
Steadfast: The Xolobeni residents have, for more than a decade and with deadly consequences for them, fought off an Australian company wanting to mine their land.
Groundbreaking court judgment on mining and community …
The Umgungundlovu community, located in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has won an important case in the Gauteng High Court that enables communities to meaningfully consult with companies that want to conduct mining operations in areas where they live or work.
South Africa: Groundbreaking Court Judgment On …
This judgment is a significant victory for the Umgungundlovu community who have successfully brought several court challenges resisting the commencement of mining operations in Xolobeni.
Mining will not bring jobs to Xolobeni
Indeed, the key local mining kingpin, Zamile Qunya, who is a director at MRC's controversial open cast mine on the West Coast, and who signed all of TEM's affidavits opposing the community's ...
Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project
The Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project located on the Eastern Cape of South Africa is a world class mineral sands deposit with a Measured, Indicated and Inferred Resource of 346Mt at 5% Total Heavy Mineral.
Neoliberalism and Rural Exclusion in South Africa: …
Port Elizabeth for mining rights in 2000 (De Wet, 2011; Huizenga, 2019; Matebesi, 2020). The corporation proposed to mine a 22 km by 1.5 km stretch of the Xolobeni coastline for an estimated 22 years (Ledwaba, 2019). This request for mining rights took place through their