2017 Special Broadcasts / PPT in Southern African countries
August 17-18, in Johannesburg, South Africa
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on transnational corporations and people and community rights in Southern African countries will take place on August 17-18, in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is organized by the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power. Several communities of the region will present cases about the impacts of transnational corporations on their livelihoods, territories and human rights. Real World Radio will cover the event through some collaborators in the continent.
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18 December 2017 | Videos | Land grabbing | PPT in Southern African countries
Video interview: concerns and complaints from peasants who live in the lands destined to ProSavana, in Mozambique
Organized peasants from about 19 districts of the Nacala Corridor, in Mozambique, reject the agribusiness development project called “ProSavana”, promoted by the governments of Mozambique, Brazil and Japan, since they consider it violates their rights. Watch video
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12 October 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
The price of the environmental struggle: interview with the lawyer of Tanzanian environmental defenders who have been imprisoned for over six months in Malawi
Eight small-scale farmers from Tanzania were arrested late 2016 in Malawi, after entering the country legally invited by national organizations to know more about the impacts of uranium mining, which is the object of many exploration projects in Tanzania. Read more
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8 September 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
Lives at Risk: resistance to mining in South Africa
Below we share a video where community members resisting mining in South Africa explain the reasons behind their struggles, the threats they receive and the alternatives raised by them, such as sustainable agriculture. Watch video
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4 September 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | PPT in Southern African countries
Resistance of communities to the Mphanda Nkuwa dam in Mozambique
Mozambican social organizations are warning that the plans of the government to install the huge Mphanda Nkuwa dam on the Zambezi River will cause serious environmental impacts, affecting communities that depend on the river for their lives and displacing thousands of people to generate power to be exported to South Africa. Watch video
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28 August 2017 | News | PPT in Southern African countries
Permanent Peoples Tribunal in Africa came to an end - Participants commit to strengthen the struggle against corporate impunity
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) held its sessions on August 17-18 on the issue of transnational corporations and the rights of communities. 200 people participated, including affected communities from Southern Africa, organizers and jurors. Together they committed to strengthen the struggles and expose the atrocities perpetrated by transnational corporations that steal natural resources and violate the rights of the peoples of Southern Africa, states a press release issued by the participants. Read more
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18 August 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
Remembering Marikana
Interview with Brid Brennan and Nnimmo Bassey at the end of the second session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal in South Africa
The 2nd session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on transnational corporations, organized by the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and held in Johannesburg, South Africa, came to an end on Friday. A third session is scheduled to take place in October in Geneva, Switzerland, towards the elaboration of a Peoples Treaty to deliver to the United Nations. Read more
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18 August 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | PPT in Southern African countries
Interview with Ilham Rawoot, Coordinator of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal in session in South Africa
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on transnational corporations and the rights of the people and communities started its sessions on August 17 in Johannesburg, South Africa, believing that the current situation of defenselessness of communities with reference to the actions of transnational corporations requires other mechanisms that give way to justice. Read more
