Update: August 2018 to Now – Status of the Save Our Wilderness campaign

The wise Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, observed more than 2500 years ago that change is the only thing that is certain. Protesting workers close Tendele mine On 24 August 2018, placard-waving workers from Tendele Coal Mine in Somkhele, stood outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court protesting against our application to close the mine for being non-compliant. On […]

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PROSPECTING RIGHTS APPLICATION FOR IMVUKUZANE RESOURCES PUT ON HOLD – FULENI, KZN

Greenmined Environmental distributed a letter on 14 August, 2018 to Interested and Affected Parties.The letter states that the Basic Assessment process for the prospecting rights application at Fuleni by Imvukuzane Resources, has been put on hold. Herewith we would like to inform you, on behalf of the Applicant, that the basic assessment (BA) process, as […]

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New Mining Threat Looms – Zululand Observer

By Tamlyn Jolly Just as the dust had settled on the Fuleni communities’ successful fight against an opencast mine on their doorstep, another mining company has applied for a prospecting licence in the same area. After much protesting and hostility from the Fuleni communities, Ibutho Coal in 2016 gave up its attempts to mine the […]

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Imvukuzane Resources threatens the Fuleni Reserve and the iMfolozi wilderness

URGENT APPEAL – REGISTER NOW AS AN INTERESTED AND AFFECTED PARTY (IAP) WE NEED YOUR HELP TO STOP A DEVASTATING NEW COAL MINE ON THE BORDER OF THE HLUHLUWE-IMFOLOZI PARK Background For the second time in four years, the Fuleni community, home of the Mthethwa people for centuries, is being subjected to the stress of […]

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PUTTING THE INGONYAMA TRUST ACT IN PERSPECTIVE

‘The relocation and redistribution of land process took a staggering blow with the unexpected and secretive passing of the KwaZulu INgonyama Trust Act which was passed by the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly and assented to by President de Klerk on 25 April 1994……….’  Cohen, T in Human Rights Yearbook 1995 (1996:144) Amidst threats of violence, a political storm […]

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