The Right2Know Campaign strongly supports the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) in their fight against the proposed mining of the coastal sand dunes at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape.
On Monday, 23 April at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the ACC will be challenging the process by which the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) issues mining rights. According to the ACC, in terms of existing legislation "DMR cannot issue a mining right without the consent of the affected community".
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