"There will be no mining in Pondoland"

Sunday, 20 March 2016 - 11:00am to 11:30am

The east coast of South Africa is home to a conflict as old as the industrial age. A start-up company from Perth wants to mine a precious stretch of remote, coastal dunes for titanium; the local people, known as Pondos, value their land and culture above and beyond a flash-in-the-pan mining venture. Ten years on, there is no mine. The company is pulling out every trick in the exploitation book; undermining tourism prospects, offering a new highway and splitting families. The community's response is an unbending “no”.

To sign the petition to the shareholders of the company, Mineral Resource Commodities, find it at the website of a new film documenting this story: The Shore Break.

Guests:

Nonhle Mbuthuma, Amadiba Crisis Committee

John Clarke, social worker and writer

Music:

Ntombe Thongo

Image:

Nonhle Mbuthuma and members of the Amadiba Crisis Committe show the red sand at Kwanyana Beach near the proposed mining site. 

This show is #1027 and was produced by Gem Romuld.

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Sunday 11:00am to 11:30am
Local and global environmental issues from grassroots, activist perspectives with a strong social justice focus. Distributed nationally on the Community Radio Network.

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Phil Evans, Bec Horridge, Eiddwen Jeffery, Judith Peppard & Jacob Gamble

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