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 23, 2021 | Customary Rights, Events, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, Media Statements, MPAs, Small-scale Fishing, The Hook
On 12 November 2021, 24-year-old Thulani Mdluli and his three friends, all local fishers from the traditional fishing community of Nibela went fishing in the upper reaches of St Lucia. The Nibela community has lived on the Nibela peninsula for several hundred years,...
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 | Nov 19, 2021 | climate change, Coastal Links, Featured News, Human Rights, Latest News, Media Statements, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
The water stressed community of Centane in the Eastern Cape, returned to the Mthatha High Court on 12 November after government failed to provide a plan to address the crippling problem. The community is supported by Masifundise and the Centre for Environmental...
by Masifundise | Nov 5, 2021 | climate change, Customary Rights, Featured News, Food Sovereignty, Human Rights, Latest News, Small-scale Fishing, Sustainable Livelihoods, The Hook
More than 180 civil society and indigenous organisations, and academics, across 50 countries, have signed an open letter calling on world leaders to put human rights at the centre of climate and environmental policy. This decision was made ahead of the 2021...
