by Masifundise | Dec 10, 2021 | climate change, Coastal Links, Customary Rights, extractives, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
On 15 November 2021 Masifundise hosted its very first youth activist school in Durban. This school comprised of 30 youth members from the coastal communities of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape as well as Coastal Links veteran leadership. Throughout the week,...
by Masifundise | Nov 19, 2021 | extractives, Featured News, Latest News, Media Statements, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy has dismissed appeals lodged against a decision to grant prospecting rights in Oliphants River, Western Cape. Masifundise is distressed by this decision to uphold the granting of an Environmental...
by Masifundise | Nov 19, 2021 | extractives, Featured News, Human Rights, Latest News, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
In the local fishing community of Doringbaai, an application has been made by Trans-Atlantic Diamonds for proposed prospecting along the West Coast from just south of Groothoekbaai to north of Doringbaai. The applicant is applying for a permit to prospect for...
by Masifundise | Oct 22, 2021 | Coastal Links, Customary Rights, extractives, Featured News, Human Rights, Latest News, MPAs, Policy Process, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
Earlier this month, members of Coastal Links in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) gathered in Richards Bay for four days to discuss the state of small-scale fishing in the province. Much of the discussion was around the meeting with the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the...
by Masifundise | Oct 8, 2021 | Coastal Links, Events, extractives, Featured News, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
In an important ruling on 1 October 2021, the Mthatha High Court instructed the local, provincial and national governments to develop concrete plans to deliver potable water to the Centane community in the Eastern Cape. The Amathole District Municipality in...
by Masifundise | Oct 8, 2021 | climate change, Events, extractives, Featured News, Latest News, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
As part of the Uproot the DMRE movement, Cape Town climate change activists and civil society organisations came together to march to Parliament on 24 September 2021. Uproot the DMRE (The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy) is a collaborative online movement...
