2016 4 22 Xolobeni split over mine in a land of plenty on the MRC owned Tormin mining operation in the Western Cape. and assists significantly in countering negative lobbying against mining in
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The mining company is facing unrelenting opposition to its plans in Xolobeni and an already existing operation in Vredendal. MSR director Zamile Qunya is suing for remarks made in 2017 during an event organised by the University of Cape Town UCT .
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2019 6 5 The firm was awarded a mining right in 2015 to scour 22km of dune sand rich in titanium but in 2016 former minerals resources minister Mosebeni Zwane enacted an 18 month moratorium on the Xolobeni mining application following the alleged assassination in March that year of anti mining activist Sikhosiphi Baooka Rhadebe chairperson
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2019 6 14 To secure mining rights TEM and the MRC have formed a Black Economic Empowerment partnership with the Xolobeni Empowerment Company Xolco underpinned by a shareholders agreement giving Xolco directors a 26 share in the mining operation. Xolco chairman Nomangesi Malunga is a district municipal employee.
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2017 5 8 A community member in Xolobeni situated on the Wild Coast of South Africa Australian company Mineral Commodities has sued two Centre for Environmental Rights CER attorneys for defamation claiming R500 000 in damages.The summons alleges that Centre for Environmental Rights attorneys Tracey
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South Africa mining takes a violent turn. The future of this open cast operation to mine ilmenite rutile and ircon on pristine sand dunes hangs in the balance. In March 2016 opponents of the plan to mine titanium in the Xolobeni area in the Eastern Cape feared for their lives after the chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee
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Those critical of plans to allow mining in Xolobeni called the visit a plot to push for mining in the area. Subscribe to Fin24s newsletter here. The North Gauteng High Court ruled last year that the minister could not grant a mining license to operate in Xolobeni without approval and consultation of the community. Decisive way forward
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Lieka Maduna In Xolobeni we live in a very traditional way that one can never be compensated for if one is ever removed from the land of their forefathers. We are one community thats bound by humanity said Nonhle Mbuthuma the Amadiba Crisis Committee ACC spokesperson to me in an interview. A decades long mining dispute between the people of Xolobeni on the Wild Coast of the Eastern
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We will die for our land say angry Xolobeni villagers as dune mining looms. As leaders clash and government weighs an application for mining on the Wild Coast anti mining locals report a
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2019 5 16 State officials including Oscar Mabuyane have repeatedly stated that mining and tourism can co exist. However they have not explained why tourists would travel to the Amadiba area to hike ride horses cycle and swim in the tailings dams alongside a dusty noisy and visually unappealing mining operation.
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Stop mining of the Xolobeni beaches in the Transkei. 794 likes 3 talking about this. mining Pondoland Wild Coast is the moral cultural and aesthetic
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2018 10 1 Xolobenis peace belies its people who are so opposed to titanium mining in the red dunes behind their homes that they have waged a more than 10
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2019 5 20 Xolobeni An Assault By The State recent article from Noseweek Magaine January 2019. The assault by the state on the community living at Xolobeni Mbiana in the Eastern Cape drags on as the Amadiba people are again compelled to seek the protection of the courts.
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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. Yes there is some opposition but the majority of Xolobeni community support mining
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2019 6 16 The mining company is facing unrelenting opposition to its plans in Xolobeni and an already existing operation in Vredendal. MSR director Zamile Qunya is suing for remarks made in 2017 during an event organised by the University of Cape Town UCT .
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2016 6 12 Its important to understand that the Xolobeni mining lease area does not impeach on pristine coastal dunes and rehabilitation will leave the land reshaped for arable farming use
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Mqadi insists mining wont benefit the people of Xolobeni who have neither the education nor the skill to work in mining operations. He says mining will destroy the environment and their way of life. We live peacefully here. We are happy and we dont need outsiders to tell us that we are poor and that we need mining to change our lives.
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2018 7 17 in close proximity to the mining operations are often some of the most affected stakeholders. Accordingly the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 requires companies to consult with communities when applying for mining rights. The Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project is a proposed mining project located in Xolobeni in the
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2018 4 23 An Australian mining company that has applied for rights to mine at the Umgungundlovu community of Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape has left the community in the dark about how its
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2008 9 8 ALLOWING mining to go ahead on the Transkei Wild Coast would devastate the environment and that would mean permanent change to the communitys
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2016 6 13 Last Updated on Jul 16 2013. Skulduggery and dune mining From Noseweek by Erika Schute. 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 ANC bigwigs ex of the
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Pondoland Wild Coast Xolobeni mining threat South Africa Description The Australian company Mineral Commodities Ltd. MRC through its subsidiary Transworld Energy and Minerals TEM and local partner Xolco proposes to mine ilmenite rutile ircon etc from old sand dunes at Xolobeni
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He was gunned down in front of his son at his family home in Mamba Xolobeni. In July TEM made an investment U turn by announcing to the Australian Stock exchange that they would divest their shares in the proposed mining operation to a local empowerment partner in Xolobeni.
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2018 9 20 SOUTH African mines minister Gwede Mantashe said he would visit the premises of Zululand Anthracite Colliery and the Tendele Colliery between September 22 23 as part of an effort to rebuild relationships and levels of trust in the mining sector said the Department of Mineral Resources in a statement. The two collieries have been
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2019 2 19 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 West Coast.
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