Namaqualand communities call for moratorium on all new mining rights
Shereen Fortuin, a community leader from Concordia, leads a march through Springbok in the Northern Cape on Thursday, calling for a moratorium on all new mining applications and permit renewals.
Communities such as Richtersveld and Concordia have communal land ownership through the Transformation of Certain Rural Areas Act. Ann Friedberg, a resident of Sanddrif in the Richtersveld, said that the government and mining companies"made us poor millionaires". Despite active mining in Namaqualand, communities face high unemployment, failing infrastructure and poor access to water and electricity, the memo said.Friedberg said that people of the Richtersveld have been given very little information on the project."We don't have a say about our land. But our ancestors' bones lie there," she said.
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