by Masifundise | Mar 26, 2021 | Customary Rights, Events, Food Sovereignty, Inland Fisheries, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
21 March marked the annual Human Rights day in South Africa. This day provided the important opportunity to reflect on progress made on the advancement and protection of human rights as well as confront the failures. Masifundise and Coastal Links South Africa (CLSA),...
by Masifundise | Dec 1, 2020 | Customary Rights, Featured News, Latest News, MPAs, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
It has been more than two weeks of silence since the KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Coastal Links leadership tabled a letter to the Isimangaliso Wetland Authorities and the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) regarding concerns of a lack of community...
by Masifundise | Nov 3, 2020 | Customary Rights, Featured News, Latest News, MPAs, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
Small-scale fishers from Nibela in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) have tabled a letter to Isimangaliso Wetland Park authorities and the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF) following failed attempts of meaningful public participation for the Integrated...
by Masifundise | Nov 3, 2020 | Coastal Links, Customary Rights, Featured News, Latest News, MPAs, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
On 22 October 2020, Masifundise kicked off the first leg of their COVID-19 roadshow and Socio-Economic Rights Project in the Eastern Cape. After months of being unable to conduct fieldwork, this roadshow provided Masifundise with the opportunity to physically reaffirm...
by Masifundise | Sep 30, 2020 | Customary Rights, Featured News, Inland Fisheries, Latest News, MPAs, The Hook
On the night of Wednesday 16 September 2020, Celimpilo Mdluli and two other fishermen from the Nibela cooperative were shot by rangers at the St Lucia Lake while fishing. Celimpilo unfortunately died as a result of the shooting, the other fisher was shot and...
by Masifundise | Feb 26, 2018 | Coastal Links, Customary Rights, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing
Coastal Links KZN leaders and fishers are in shock. They have realised that DAFF’s understanding of the words ‘co-operative’, ‘co-management’ and ‘human rights’ is not the same as theirs. Fishing communities in this province have been waiting for the implementation of...
