The Tendele coal mining company has failed to comply with the legal requirements for relocating nearly 200 families while opening new coal mines in KZN.
Arguing that it may be forced to close down, Tendele Coal Mining has denied that traditional leaders were intimidating the local community in an effort to bulldoze an easy mining path for the company.
‘Tendele acts as if it can do anything it wants in our community … It is as if our lives do not matter. We are merely dots on a map to be told, and not asked.’ Israel Nkosi, resident of the Emalahleni area in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
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