Last week, Southern Africa and the Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power hosted a two-day #RightToSayNo national workshop attended by over 70 activists from mining communities across the country. They discussed a number of issues under the theme: Building the Just…
On Human Rights Day, 21 March 2023, over 70 activists from mining communities across the country gathered in Xolobeni, Eastern Cape to commemorate the life of fallen human rights defenders including Sikhosiphi Bazooka Rhadebe, Chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee who…
On the 6th and 7th of February community activists from South Africa and Swaziland gathered in Cape Town to strategize ways to challenge extractivism and to speak out against the violence inflicted onto human rights defenders and activists by the…
Last year our movement lost three leaders to assassination and another comrade to a police murder. On 21 January our comrade Thulani Maseko was assassinated in Swaziland. Political assassinations have often been used to repress dissent in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. …
We have received very disturbing information in January from a whistleblower, of the planned assassination of Nonhle Mbuthuma and Thwesha Silangwe, community leaders in Amadiba A/A in Mbizana (EC). Both leaders have been working to move the N2 Wild Coast…
On Human Rights Day, 21 March 2022, hundreds of land activists and community members from six provinces in South Africa gathered in Xolobeni, Eastern Cape to attend a Peoples’ Summit for Alternative Development and to commemorate the sixth anniversary of…
