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Wild Coast Update - Part One Re-membering

The South African government awarded mining rights for the coastal dunes of the Pondoland Wild Coast to an Australian mining company in 2008. Supported by their King and Queen, the AmaMpondo have so far successfully waged a struggle to persuade the Minister of Minerals to revoke the mining rights -- for now! But environmental approval has since been given by the Minister for Environment for the construction of the contentious new N2 Wild Coast Toll that will bisect the Kingdom of AmaMpondo and open the way for a renewed bid for mining rights for the Xolobeni Mineral Sands. Sustaining the Wild Coast in partnership with the SABC's environmental program 50|50, Canadian photographer Cheryl Alexander (www.Wildawake.com, ) and the Southern African Faith Communities Environmental Institute (www.safcei.org.za, ) present an update on the issues, and launch the "Too Great a Toll 2012 Calendar" to raise funds to assist local residents in their court bid to force the government to stop the proposed realignment of the N2 Wild Coast Toll road so close to the titanium rich coastal dunes of the Wild Coast. The three part film offers an extended version of the 50 50 reports recently broadcast. International delegates to the International Convention on Climate Change (COP 17) in November in Durban South Africa will find this story inspirational, as a living testimony to the power of concerted citizen action to influence contentious environmental decisions. Part 1: Re-membering. In one of the first programs on the mining and toll road issues 50|50 presenter Jonathan Rands (who sadly died in April 2011 and to whom this film is dedicated) challenged conservationists in 2003 to bring the issues down to earth and engage with the people most affected in an open, participatory process. Jonathan sadly never lived to see the fulfilment of his challenge but current 50|50 presenter Simon Gear presents an assessment that shows a situation that is completely transformed from the bleak situation that prevailed eight years ago. He talks to social worker John Clarke who bears witness to an empowered community that have claimed their constitutional rights and taken their destiny into their own hands.