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Today we in solidarity with Sth Africa for this much Loss of Mam Fikile 🖤🖤🖤🖤😢😥😰😥😢 as stated below by XR Sth Africa rebel groups.......we.shall always miss this beautiful irreplaceable specie...

We are here on International Human Rights day, to honour

and commemorate the life and death of Mama Fikile Ntshangase. This brave human rights defender,
activist and grandmother was brutally gunned down on 22 October this year, for fighting against coal mine expansion into her community in KZN, South Africa.

As Extinction Rebellion South Africa, gathered here with our friends and fellow activists, we wish to express our heartfelt condolences to the family and loved ones of Mam’ Fikile Ntshangase, who stood bravely to the end for what she knew was right.

Her loss has deprived our earth of a true example of integrity, strength and community-mindedness. As we mourn this awful loss, we mourn, too, the loss of all
the brave environmental activists who have fallen in this struggle. Mam’ Fikile joins a growing list of activists lost

to this fight - men and women on the
frontlines, victimised and assassinated for daring to oppose corrupt companies, investors and governments, who profit from the destruction of our land, rivers and oceans.
The fight against mines that has played out in Somkhele

and Xolobeni, is ultimately also a fight against climate and ecological breakdown. As the demand for natural
resources grows and capitalism accelerates us towards catastrophe, the environment has become the new frontline

for the struggle for human rights, and activists our first, last and only line of defense. Our earth defenders, like Mam’ Fikile Ntshangase, do vitally important work for this generation and all others who will follow. And they do it often without acclaim or even much attention,

in quiet rural communities far from the city centres. But we will not allow this remoteness to function as a cover, hiding the atrocities committed in the name of ‘development’.
The dominant capitalist system renders invisible the

increasing murders of activists and the suffering of communities connected to the global rush for the rem
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