Nonhle Mbuthuma -The Curse of Titanium - The Amadiba Crisis Committee and Community Struggles in EC

This webinar will focus on the community struggles that started in early 1996 against an Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Mineral Ltd (MRC) which discovered titanium along the Amadiba coast in the Eastern Cape. These struggles resulted in the birth of the Amadiba Crisis Committee which was formed in 2007 to fight for land and environmental rights of the people of Xholobeni. What has emerged is the importance of community rights to information and community agency with regards extractive industries seeking operation on indigenous lands. The webinar will discuss the Amadiba Crisis Committee responses and tactics including the court cases brought against the Department of Mineral Resources in 2018.