16 August – Eleventh Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre

16 August – Eleventh Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre

On 16 August 2012 the South African police shot dead 34 platinum miners on strike for a living wage from their employer Lonmin, a descendant of notorious UK company Lonrho, founded during Cecil Rhodes’ brutal white settler colonial occupation of southern Africa. Join...
Amadiba Frontline Community Defenders Face New Death Threat

Amadiba Frontline Community Defenders Face New Death Threat

By Andy Higginbottom For several years the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa has been at the forefront of community-based mobilisation to protect land and sea from the destruction of multinational capital. They now face a...
Plot to kill two leaders in Amadiba, Mbizana, South Africa

Plot to kill two leaders in Amadiba, Mbizana, South Africa

One of the two leaders under threat in Amadiba is LMN’s friend Nonhle Mbuthuma. We helped support the struggle of the Amadiba Crisis Committee to protect the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape from destructive mineral sands mining by Australian company MRC, whose...