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“You are no longer alone in your struggle”
By Sheila Berry Support from Grrrowd for our campaign to stop the planned coalmine right on the border of the pristine iMfolozi Wilderness, started with the exchange of a few emails from strangers. Within a week or two it was like being part of a family….Read more
Save our Rhino from coal mining pollution in iMfolozi
Dear Friends and Wilderness supporters Please join us to prevent the Fuleni open cast coal mine destroying the iMfolozi Wilderness Area, a sanctuary for endangered rhinos. iMfolozi is the oldest protected area in Africa and has the largest concentration of rhino in South Africa. iMfolozi was established in 1895 as…
Kontakion to dear departed Tim Condon
Final Scoping report available
Yesterday afternoon a notification was sent out informing IAPs of the availability of the final Fuleni Scoping Report for the proposed open cast coal mine on the southern boundary of the iMfolozi Wilderness Area. The email was sent by Mrs Lizinda Dickson, Public Participation Manager for Naledi Consultants, in…
The fall of the wild?
‘Pull back!’ Ezemvelo’s plea to coal mining company
This Article appeared in the Mercury on Tuesday, 27 May. By Tony Carnie “Some places are sacrosanct - so please pull back and think again!” This is the plea to a mining company from KwaZulu-Natal’s official guardian of the province’s wild spaces. Responding to plans to set up an open-cast…
Save our Wilderness information event at Howick, KZN
Sheila Berry of the Wilderness Alliance and Sifiso Dladla of MACUA (Mining Affected Community United in Action ), will be speaking at Dovehouse Organic Farm outside Howick , on Thursday, 29 May, 17:30. This event has been kindly organised by Verdant Life and hosted by Dovehouse Organics Bring your own…
Global Outrage at iMfolozi Mining Plan
This article appeared in the Daily News on Thursday,8 May 2014 By Vivien van der Sandt Conservationists opposing the plan to establish a 20km-long, partly open-cast anthracite mine within metres of the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi game park, have called on the Department of Mineral Resources minister to halt the application immediately, even before…
