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CCS Webinar: The Curse of Titanium - The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in the Eastern Cape |
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Facilitators: Andries Motau & Danford Chibvongodze Speaker: Nonhle Mbuthuma Date: Wednesday 28 July 2021 Time: 16:00-17:00 SA Time Register in advance for this meeting: https://ukzn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdeuhrzkpHdFWVBankxc0TdAfL4XshWGn After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Topic This webinar will focus on the community struggles that started in early 1996 against an Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Mineral Ltd (MRC) which discovered titanium along the Amadiba coast in the Eastern Cape. These struggles resulted in the birth of the Amadiba Crisis Committee which was formed in 2007 to fight for land and environmental rights of the people of Xholobeni. What has emerged is the importance of community rights to information and community agency with regards extractive industries seeking operation on indigenous lands. The webinar will discuss the Amadiba Crisis Committee responses and tactics including the court cases brought against the Department of Mineral Resources in 2018.
Speaker Bio Nonhle Mbuthuma is an activist and farmer who fights for land and environmental rights in South Africa's Eastern Cape province. In 2007 Nonhle founded the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) to unite community members in five villages of the Amadiba Tribal Authority region to work together in opposition to destructive mining projects. She is now the most visible leader of the campaign against the Australian corporation Mineral Commodities Mineral Ltd (MRC). A crucial link between the indigenous community and the ACC’s legal team, Nonhle also engages the community in farming and food security workshops and has launched such projects in local schools.
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