Re-imagining Solidarity and Hope is the title of our 2018-2020 project. The starting point is the need to find strategies and methodologies for dialogue that transcend geopolitical boundaries, including different [ … ]
Extractivism is beyond mining
“Cry of poor and the cry of earth is one cry” This briefing note was developed after an exciting workshop/ seminar (March 2017) that brought together activists, movements, scholars and [ … ]
South African – Brazil Exchange Visit: A Report
In the month of September 2019 from 1st to 8th a group of 11 South African Activists from the social movement involved in housing visited Brazil. This was an exchange [ … ]
2019 SAPSN Summit – a brief report
The 2019 Southern African People’s Solidarity Network Summit (Dar es Salam, Tanzania, 13-17 August 2019) was attended by delegates from Southern African Region. Themed Rebuilding People’s Movements within Southern Africa’s [ … ]
People’s Dialogue Southern Africa _ Annual Narrative Report 2018
This report is written at a moment of deep human suffering and climate crisis in Southern Africa. The full impact and extent of destruction and havoc caused by Cyclone Idai [ … ]
The Legal Basis for the Right to Say No
Free, Prior and Informed Consent The right of members of a community to say no to a developer wanting to enter and utilize their land is a legally established principle [ … ]
Free, Prior and Informed Consent in the Extractive Industries in Southern Africa: An analysis of legislation and their implementation in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia
The report FREE, PRIOR AND INFORMED CONSENT IN THE EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA: An analysis of legislation and their implementation in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia was prepared [ … ]
Making the Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivism relevant for labour
Background The Peoples Dialogue together with its allies are hosting a Thematic Social Forum on mining and extractivism. This Forum will take place in Johannesburg in November. Most of the [ … ]
Thematic Social Forum FINAL STATEMENT
FINAL STATEMENT THEMATIC SOCIAL FORUM ON MINING AND EXTRACTIVIST ECONOMY JOHANNESBURG, 12-15 NOVEMBER 2018 BEYOND EXTRACTIVISM: RECLAIMING PEOPLES POWER, OUR RIGHT TO SAY NO! We, the participants of the Thematic [ … ]
Thematic Social Forum on Mining and Extractivist Economy: an outstanding success that builds a platform for continuity
Peoples Dialogue In the face of an intensifying assault on nature, the relentless drive to displace people from their lands for mining and other extractivist projects as well as the [ … ]