On the 22nd of October 2020 unknown assailant gunned down community leader and environmental activist Fikile Ntshangase. Her life was taken in her home she passed away on the kitchen floor of her rural home, her grandchildren are said to have witnessed the brutal murder suspected to be a hit in the Mfolozi community in Mtubatuba. Tendele mining, which already operates a mine in this picturesque corner of the earth, wishes to expand its operations. An application for the expansion to a 222-km² area in Mpukunyoni, now on review by the court, requires the relocation of 21 families from their ancestral land. Claims of assaults, shootings, and death threats have been reported by families not willing to sign relocation agreements and compensation offers.
The community finds itself divided, while others are willing to relocate others are not, they accuse the mine of not operating within the country’s environmental laws and not consulting the community. Furthermore, Tendele is accused of having previously destroyed ancestral gravesites, homes, and grazing lands.
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21 янв 2021
