Lihle Mbokazi is a wilderness guide, conservationist and a passionate advocate for Mother Earth. She has been listening to nature all her life and has recently been further inspired by Earth Jurisprudence. Raised in the picturesque and challenging foothills of the Drakensberg Mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, Lihle first found her love of…
By Tony Carnie FOUR months after community leader Bazooka Radebe was gunned down in front of his son, an Australian mining company says it is bailing out from its plan to mine one of the world’s biggest undeveloped mineral sand mining ventures, at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast. Mineral Resources…
By Sheila Berry This morning an angry but well-behaved crowd of well over a thousand Fuleni residents forced the Regional Mining Development Environmental Committee (RMDEC) to abort their site visit to Fuleni for Ibutho Coal’s proposed open cast mine on the boundary of the iMfolozi Wilderness Area. The site visit…
By Sheila Berry Last Thursday morning, 7th April, from 11h00 to 14h00, while Xolobeni and Fuleni activists and their supporters were picketing outside the DMR offices in Bay House, Durban, the Minister of Mineral Resources, Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, was holding a Mining Imbizo at the obscure Ndumakuda Community Hall, Ward…
Watch In Defence of Life and learn how courageous front line communities are standing up against mining and winning! Following the trials and triumphs of men and women in Colombia, the Philippines, South Africa and Romania, the film shows that, despite all the odds, small, determined communities can successfully protect…
This 6-minute video documents the Participatory Video learning process as experienced by members of EarthLore South Africa and communities in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. [youtube https://youtu.be/VuBlM5rGgdM&w=500&h=280]
Video by Sphiwe Mazibuko [vimeo https://vimeo.com/161007908 w=500&h=280] Sphiwe Mazibuko’s 9 minute documentary exposes the intimidation and violence facing anti-mining activists on the Wild Coast and Zululand, in South Africa. Xolobeni residents have fought for 10 years to prevent an Australian company from mining their titanium rich dunes. The unwavering response…
By Rob Symons Last night the Chairman of the Amadiba Crisis Committee, Sikosiphe ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe, was brutally murdered at his home on the Wild Coast. This has brought home in the harshest possible way the ugly reality confronting all those who oppose destructive mining activities in South Africa and in…
SUNDAY – 28 FEBRUARY 2016 AmaWeliseli Church, Ocilwane Village, FULENI. The idea for the Isolesizwe Film Festival grew from the participatory video training workshop held in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in November 2016, when the power of film was introduced to activists from various communities, including Fuleni and Somkhele. The Isolesizwe Film…
The highly practical and participatory AE course was facilitated by Richard Haigh and focused on various interventions aimed at healing the relationship between land, animals, plants and ourselves, using what we have, where we are and where we are within ourselves. Participants were encouraged to link their energies in order…
