South Africa: Wild Coast community renews mining fight
13.06.2012
An uphill battle against mining, waged since 2007 by the impoverished South African Amadiba community, last year appeared to have been won. Now it's beginning again. A local subsidiary of Australian firm Mineral Resource Commodities has renwed its application to prospect for mineral sands along the Transkei's Wild Coast. The traditional owners of the area are outraged.