Gift Radebe

Member of Mining Affected communities United in action
Branch Coodinator of MACUA
EKURHULENI BRANCH
Climate JusticTeam orgerniser
Activist.

[Gift Radebe @GiftRadebe10]

Ekurhuleni climate justice team with school climate justice Group 1 having a debate descussion on the effect of climate change in SOUTH AFRICA and communities affected by mining activities.

#PutingourClimatewithinTheLearningContext.
NOTHING ABOUT US WETHOUT US👌

VIVAA MACUA

[Gift Radebe @GiftRadebe10]

Please help us get our identity back

help us get IDs❤️
My 7 siblings and I are stuck. No IDs no jobs, no bursaries, no future.
We need DNA tests to prove we’re South African.
If 120 people donate R100, we’re there. Please donate and share: https://t.co/1Ho15LroCk

[Gift Radebe @GiftRadebe10]

@SABCNews 💩

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA Calls for an Investigation into Reports by the Director-General of DMPR which has Misled Parliament Regarding the State of Compliance of Mining Companies in South Africa.

MACUA is deeply concerned about the @DMRE_ZA
continuous failure to adequately regulate mining corporations and its reliance on self-reported, unverified industry statistics, which it uses to paint a false picture of the state of the mining sector. This practice has resulted in misleading information being reported to Parliament and the resultant failure to enforce Social and Labour Plan (SLP) compliance, undermining not only the law, but also the rights and development of mining-affected communities.

#MACUAWAMUA
#PortfolioCommittee
#DMPR
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA strongly condemns the deliberate exclusion of MACUA from the Portfolio Committee on Mineral and Petroleum Resources’ recent oversight visit to Mpumalanga. Despite multiple requests for the Committee’s programme and prior engagements highlighting our concerns regarding mining accountability, MACUA was intentionally left out of the process.
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@SABCNews
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@Newzroom405

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

Spoken Word Performance by Gift Radebe, MACUA Acting National Secretary.

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA has criticised the Portfolio Committee of the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) for its silence on the dozens that died at the Stilfontein mine. https://t.co/vQT62l41Rh
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[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

Zinzi Tom, an affected community member, has taken a courageous stand through @LHR_SA, filing an urgent application in the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division, Pretoria. Invoking Section 38 of the Constitution, she demands that the state take immediate responsibility for funding the rescue of artisanal miners trapped in Shafts 10 and 11 of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. Her application is a powerful challenge to a system that criminalises those struggling to survive systemic poverty while shielding powerful entities from accountability.

Zinzi’s brother, Ayanda Tom, is among the hundreds of miners trapped underground since July 2024. “I bring this application as an urgent bid to save my brother’s life, in hope that he is still alive,” Zinzi declares in her affidavit. “I also bring this application in the interests of women and children whose loved ones are trapped underground, facing imminent death.”

The case will be heard in the High Court today.

[eNCA @eNCA]

The High Court in Pretoria has ordered government to rescue illegal miners in Stilfontein. Hundreds of zama zamas reportedly remain underground. Retrieving them could begin on Monday. General Industries Workers Union president, Mametlwe Sebei, spoke to eNCA. #AllAngles #DStv403

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

It’s that time again!!! MAC Summit 2025.

We call on community-based organisations to join us and be a part of the challenge against mining entities who continue to subject us to harsh living conditions.

Use the link for the criteria to register and secure your spot: https://t.co/Y6ealcGK77

Spaces are limited, and applications will close on 25 January 2025. See you there!!!

For inquiries and assistance, you may contact us via email at [email protected]

#MACUAWAMUA

#MACSummit2025

#FreeTheMiners

[Newzroom Afrika @Newzroom405]

[WATCH] Volunteers have brought another body to the surface in Stilfontein. Zama zamas earlier sent a letter claiming there are more than 100 bodies underground in the disused mine shafts. Newzroom Afrika's @ZinikokaMhlaba has been on the ground following events there and joins us now for an update.

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[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA calls on all community-based organisations and social movements to join us for the MAC Summit 2025 that will be held in early February 2025.

The Summit is being held at a critical juncture as the government prepares to gazette changes to the Minerals Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA). It is essential that mining-affected and marginalised communities unite to form a strong movement of resistance against efforts by politicians to perpetuate a mining sector that breeds poverty and exclusion for the majority.

All applications must be submitted no later than 25 January 2025. The link to the application form is attached below.

https://t.co/Y6ealcGK77

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

The recent ruling delivered on 20 December 2024 by the Pretoria North High Court, dismissing MACUA's application to compel the @GovernmentZA to immediately commence rescue and resurfacing operations and provide food and humanitarian aid to the trapped miners in Stilfontein, amounts to nothing less than a death sentence for those underground. It is a fundamental denial of their right to life.

While the court has affirmed the miners' right to receive humanitarian aid and acknowledged that they are trapped with no alternative source of sustenance, it may have erred in failing to affirm the state's duty and obligation to protect this right. The state bears the responsibility to ensure that the trapped miners' right to life is upheld and realised, especially given its role in engineering the existing crisis.
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#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs
@LHR_SA @DMRE_ZA @CALS_ZA @BDliveSA @TheCitizen_News @SAPoliceService

[ActionAid South Africa @AA_SouthAfrica]

YOU ARE INVITED❗️

We would like to invite youto the National Policy Dialogue, happening next week Wednesday. This is in partnership with @macua_sa and @CALS_ZA .

Seats are limited. RSVP today. Details on the flyer.

The year might be over but the work of justice is not. ✊

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA has noted the claims by the Police that Miners have been exiting from Shaft 10. We have also noted the claims made by the people who police claim exited from Shaft 10, about being held underground by armed men and that food has been appropriated by these men.
#MACUAWAMUA
#StilfonteinMine
#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

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[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA would like to thank all the community volunteers, social movements, unions and charitable organisations that have answered our call to attend to the humanitarian crisis unfolding at Stilfontein while the @GovernmentZA and other organs of state, particularly @SAPoliceService , tried to use starvation and deprivation of food as tools to bring about law enforcement.

The community rescue team on the ground has managed to lower down 45kg of e-Pap, 1000 bottles of water and 2000 containers with spoons to Stilfontein today. Special thanks to members of @SAJFP_ , Visual Intifada and the Potch for Palestine community who continue to drive donations for the relief effort.

This is not enough! We need to please keep donating, sharing and raising awareness. We also need to put pressure on the South African Government to do an immediate evacuation of the trapped miners underground. Don’t stop sharing the donation link in your networks and don’t stop talking about this.

Please keep spreading the word and keep advocating for the right to life of artisanal miners!

Link to a BackaBuddy account: https://t.co/IEMXc0zN47

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

Today, MACUA was at the High Court of South Africa in Bloemfontein, Free State to challenge Harmony Target Gold Mine against their act of using courts to deny our communities the chance to submit their grievances.

https://t.co/XtD0ItI41a

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA executive director Christopher Rutledge states that miners are growing increasingly desperate to surface.
https://t.co/Pwx3OO2OCT
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#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

[Gift Radebe @GiftRadebe10]

RT @macua_sa: We call upon the state to reject the allure of cheap populism for electoral gains. The government must remember its constitut…

[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

MACUA National Coordinator Meshack Mbangula will be live tonight on Power FM to share MACUA's stance on the ongoing matter in Stilfontein, give insight on planned legal action and the implications for mining communities.

Tune in at 22h05 and be a part of the conversation.

https://t.co/5EmgUVr7H2 click to join, don’t miss out!
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#MiningJustice
#StilfonteinMine
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[Mining Affected Communities United in Action @macua_sa]

Within the midst of the hate and callous disrect for human life, which still marks the states intervention ... the hope of Ubuntu, which brings us together to ensure the safety of those in need will always be the bedrock of who we are ....even when those in power want us to hate each other...let us seek the unity of the poor and the marganilsed.

One miner has been brought to surface. He is says many are too weak and dehydrated to come up as Police continue to block food and water.