We, the members of the Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation (MCEJO) would like to share what happened during our protest march on Wednesday, 5 June 2024, World Environment Day. It was a shocking experience especially on the side of the police. There is a lot that Tendele mine is doing wrong. We explain these things […]
KwaMyeki, KwaZulu-Natal – Today, World Environment Day, members of the Mfolozi Community Environmental Justice Organisation (MCEJO) are conducting a peaceful and lawful protest against Petmin and Tendele’s Somkhele mine near Mtubatuba. The protest aims to raise awareness about the Constitutional Right to live in an environment that is not harmful to a person’s health or […]
We, the members of MCEJO, have spent the last seven years attending court cases at the Pietermaritzburg High Court to protect our grazing lands and indigenous forests from being cleared and blasted apart by Tendele coal mine and our livelihoods and lives left in tatters. The mine bulldozes homes in its way and expects families […]
Tendele coal mine has brought destruction and confusion to Somkhele by bulldozing its way into Emalahleni and mine there, no matter what. Emalahleni, a village near Somkhele, is on the road to Ophondweni, where 63-year old Mam Fikile Ntshangase, our respected MCEJO leader who challenged Tendele mine, was fatally shot in her home on 22 […]