A handful of residents from one of KwaZulu-Natal’s coal-mining communities joined forces with Extinction Rebellion protesters in an attempt to disrupt the Southern African Coal Conference in Cape Town on Thursday
Guards and police were tipped off by a news article which was published in defiance of an embargo set by Extinction Rebellion.
The activists included people from Newcastle in KZN, who claimed that two community members were murdered recently after opposing the proposed reopening of a mine. Lucky Shabalala, an activist from Ramaphosa - the village where the two leaders were killed - said they were not consulted by the government when it came to decisions about mining.
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