Case studies from South Africa and Tunisia reflect the issue and illustrate the role of community organizing. For the past 20 years, every year in Cape Town, South Africa, governments, investors, and mining companies meet in the annual Africa Mining Indaba to network and discuss developing mining interests in Africa. This is targeted especially against environmental and land rights activists and during the past decade 12 activists have been shot dead or poisoned. Phosphate mining is a very polluting activity. Perhaps there is a lesson here that South Africa might teach North Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 30, 2018 08:03 UTC