Achieng O.M. 2015 "The Role of Traditional Leaders in Conflict Management In Africa: A Case Study of the Somalia National Reconciliation Conference (SNRC) 2000-2010" Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS) published master's dissertation International Conflict Management, University of Nairobi Kenya Google Scholar; Adedeji …
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In 2015, the company's Tormin mine began operations with the rights to mine 15km of beach along the coast of the municipality. It mined minerals contained in the sand that are used in industry ...
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The ACC is made up of residents from the Xolobeni community who have been fighting against the proposed open cast mining on their land since the early 2000s by the Australian mining conglomerate Mineral Resources Commodities (MRC). The Xolobeni mine is a proposed titanium mine which would be one of the largest of its kind in South …
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Game-changing judgment for Xolobeni community on mining rights applications. 15 September 2020 - Lee-Anne Bruce. On 14 September, the Pretoria High Court handed down a landmark judgment confirming that mining-affected communities have the right to access information about the projects that impact them. CALS …
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Much is at stake: the Xolobeni operation, with a lifespan of more than 20 years, promises to be richer and longer-lasting than its West Coast counterpart. The lease area is sizeable – 22km long and 1,5 km …
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Skulduggery and dune mining (From Noseweek) by Erika Schutze. Residents in the Xolobeni district in Pondoland find themselves the victims of the manipulative tactics of an Australian mining company on the hunt for titanium deposits, the tunnel vision of the Department of Minerals and Energy, as well as a couple of scheming …
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In expanding the post-colonial aperture in this way, the article highlights how the State has accelerated the pace of slow violence experienced by rural Black South Africans, at first under colonialism, then under apartheid, and now at the hands of black political and economic elites keen to expand mining operations on land, and more …
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Much is at stake: the Xolobeni operation, with a lifespan of more than 20 years, promises to be richer and longer-lasting than its West Coast counterpart. The …
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Bekeni Danca, 40, was born in Xolobeni village and fears that if the project of an Australian-based company to mine the mineral sands along the coast of her village …
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The terms of that social contract are variously defined but include community support and co-operation in exchange for stakeholder recognition, infrastructure development, economic opportunity and jobs. …
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The report also lists 10 reasons why the mining operations in New South Wales have been discontinued and describes several of them as relevant to the proposed mining at Xolobeni. This means that TEM seeks to legitimise operations in South Africa regardless of their negative impact.
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Mining will not bring jobs to Xolobeni. Nowethu Phakathi and Nombulelo Jula harvest sweet potatoes from their communal plot in Mahaha, Ngungu near Mbizana in Eastern Cape. Like many other ...
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>Mining > Sand-mining > South Africa >Wildcoast >Xolobeni The Xolobeni Heavy Minerals Sands Project on diba, was due to istine inite, zircon, rutile and zed community that -stricken. Those s the proposed 1) have nsive outcomes of this EIA will be explored in the following sections. Backgr ound The proposed mining site is located in
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The case of the Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project in the Eastern Cape highlights some of the issues faced by governments, mining companies and communities in dealing with mining related proposals. ... It …
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Follow. 14 Sep 2020 1. In a ground-breaking judgment, the North-Gauteng High Court has ruled that affected communities have a right to see applications for mining licences — cutting out miles of ...
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Since 2007, members of the Xolobeni community in the Western Cape have pushed back against the government's efforts to allow mining operations on their traditional land, the area in which their ...
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South African indigenous community win environmental rights case over mining company. A court has ruled that companies must first seek permission from local communities if they plan to mine on their ancestral land. This represents a new achievement in land and mining rights for South Africa. On 9 December 2018, the world …
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We reached our final destination at the Mtentu river late in the afternoon, exhausted but inspired by the Xolobeni people and their brave resistance. Fourteen …
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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 from the high-grade Tormin Mineral Sands Operation on the west coast of South Africa. Tormin is one of the highest grade mineral sands mines in the world and supplies ...
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The Xolobeni deposit is cited on MRC website as being the 10th largest heavy mineral deposit in the world, estimatd at 346 million tonnes. Mining is proposed …
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MRC Resources is pursuing Xolobeni via a 56% share of Transworld Energy and Minerals Resources, which plans to mine a 22km long and 1.5km wide stretch of the Xolobeni coastline, mainly for ...
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One of the ways that communities organize their resistance to imposed mining operations is through demanding the right to consent, and more specifically, the right to say 'no' to mining. ... Questions for labour on land, livelihoods and jobs: a case study of the proposed mining at Xolobeni, wild coast. South Afr. Rev. Sociol., 42 (3) (2011 ...
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The report relates the impact of mining operations by Tormin had on small community of the Matzikama on the Cape west coast when the company breached the conditions of its mining licence.
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The Xolobeni deposit is cited on MRC website as being the 10th largest heavy mineral deposit in the world, estimatd at 346 million tonnes. Mining is proposed over 6 blocks over 25 years. Historical evidence suggests that the amaMpondo people have lived in the area for at least 500 years.
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Battle to stop 22km long mine on Wild Coast. The discovery of rare minerals in the sands has divided the Xolobeni community. (Photo: Daniel Steyn) By Daniel Steyn and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik ...
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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.. A …
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This judgment is a significant victory for the Umgungundlovu community who have successfully brought several court challenges resisting the commencement of …
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In the case of the Xolobeni mineral sands project, we unpack the nuances of state and corporate decision making to illuminate the ways in which power, profit and conceptualizations of "progress" seek to "construct consent" around the promise of development and jobs (Harvey 2003).We explore how resistance to mining by the local …
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According to the MPRDA, a company that wants to commence mining operations must submit an application to the regional manager of the … See more
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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.
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Nov 26, 2018· ACC has been fighting against mining operations in Xolobeni, a village in Umgungundlovu on the Wild Coast. "Right now we are so happy, I can't even explain it," said Siyabonga Ndovela who has lived in Xolobeni for 26 years. "Xolobeni is our land and our great grandfather's land so we have to protect it for the sake of the Pondo ...
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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. The case ...
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The Minister's motivation for imposing the moratorium is the "social and political climate at Xolobeni and the social disintegration and highly volatile nature of the current situation in the area". ... the applicants explain that a decision to approve mining operations without the consensus of the community will trigger massive conflict ...
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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. ... We know here that this mining operation will be disruptive of the cultural lives," Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, also ...
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Xolobeni: Mining applications should be made public. On Monday, 10 February, members of the Umgungundlovu community will appear in the Pretoria High Court, asking that communities be given access to mining rights applications of operations that may impact them. CALS has been admitted as a friend of the court in the matter and …
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Australian mining executive and entrepreneur Mark Caruso has quite a reputation. He heads Perth-based mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) that has two business interests in South Africa: a proposed ilmenite mine at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast in Pondoland, and the other a working mineral sands mine, Tormin, on the …
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The terms of that social contract are variously defined but include community support and co-operation in exchange for stakeholder recognition, infrastructure …
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