Last month activists in Pondoland in South Africa won an important victory., The Guardian reports. A court decided that before the government grants mining rights to someone, they must first have the consent of the local community. Local residents have formed the Amadiba crisis commitee because they are afraid mining could the ecology in the region and that people could lose their land. The mining company wants to find materials that could be used for golf clubs, laptop computers, bicycles, watches, just to mention a few things.
Protesting against mining rights in South Africa can sometimes have a lethal outcome, according to the Guardian.
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