Reflections from the MAC Summit 🎤 In this clip, Nicole Waterboer, a resident of the forgotten town of Dingleton, shares the long shadow of relocation. Twelve years after Anglo American moved the community, the promise of safety and improved living conditions remains unfulfilled. Many residents still face unsafe, unstable, and deeply challenging circumstances. She speaks openly about how the system meant to protect communities, including legal processes and professional advisers, too often worked against their interests. Instead of empowerment, there was delay. Instead of justice, exhaustion. Her testimony forces a difficult question: when relocation is framed as “development,” who truly benefits, and who is left to carry the consequences? Watch, reflect, and listen to the lived reality behind corporate narratives. #MACSummit #Dingleton #MiningJustice #CommunityVoices #Accountability

Reflections from the MAC Summit 🎤 In this clip, Roshan Dadoo, Coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in South Africa, draws a sharp connection between struggles that are often treated as separate. She speaks about the shared patterns of dispossession, racialised control, and economic exploitation linking mining-affected communities in South Africa with Palestinians living under occupation. Her message situates extraction within a broader global system, one that concentrates power, shields corporations and states from accountability, and normalises violence against marginalised people. Solidarity, she argues, is not symbolic; it is strategic and necessary when oppression travels across borders through capital and political alliances. The clip challenges us to think beyond national boundaries and to ask what international solidarity demands in practice. Watch, reflect, and engage in the conversation. #MACSummit #BDS #GlobalSolidarity #MiningJustice #FreePalesti

Reflections from the MAC Summit 🎤 In this clip, Sabelo Mnguni, National Coordinator of MACUA, sets out the core priorities that shaped this year’s MAC Summit. His message is unequivocal: this was never meant to be a talk shop or a symbolic gathering. It is a space to consolidate power, sharpen strategy, and build real unity. He emphasises that solidarity cannot be rhetorical. It must be organised, rooted in the lived struggles of mining-affected communities, aligned with workers on the frontlines of extraction, and driven forward by a mobilised youth refusing to inherit a broken system. For him, the Summit is a turning point: from discussion to coordination, from grievance to collective action. Watch, reflect, and be part of building the unity that was called for. #MACSummit #CommunityPower #WorkerUnity #YouthLeadership #MiningJustice

Reflections from the MAC Summit 🎤 In this clip, Katlego Kgasi, National Convenor of YAMUA, speaks directly to the crisis facing young people in mining-affected communities, unemployment, exclusion from decision-making, environmental destruction, and a future that feels permanently deferred. He makes it clear: the struggle for dignity, meaningful work, and a safe, life-sustaining environment is not separate from the youth struggle, it is at its centre. If young people are locked out of ownership, skills, land, and economic power, then the so-called transition will simply reproduce inequality in a new form. His call is urgent and uncompromising: youth must organise, participate, and lead. The future will not be handed to us, it must be claimed. Watch, reflect, and get involved. #MACSummit #YAMUA #YouthInAction #JustTransition #DignityAndWork

Reflections from the MAC Summit 🎤 In this clip, Dinga Sikwebu, veteran unionist and long-standing labour activist, reflects on the real tasks that lie ahead as we move forward from the MAC Summit. Drawing on decades of organising experience and his current work alongside civil society and trade unions on the just transition and green hydrogen, he challenges us to think beyond slogans. What does a just transition actually require? Who must lead it? And how do workers and mining-affected communities shape the path forward instead of being managed through it? Watch, reflect, and join the conversation as we turn summit discussions into sustained action. #MACSummit #JustTransition #ClimateJustice #WorkerSolidarity #CommunityPower

Our @RobKrause83 is representing CALS at this year's #MACSummit hosted by @macua_sa The annual summit is a strategic gathering of communities that co-ordinates collective action against injustice in the mining sector Find out more about #MACSummit2026: wits.ac.za/news/sources/cals…

NEW REPORT RELEASED | FEB 2026 Anglo American’s Accountability Deficit documents the devastating 100-year legacy of extraction by South Africa’s largest mining company, across Southern Africa, Latin America and the Global South. Produced collaboratively by ACTSA, the Tlou Mogale Foundation, Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA), Justice for Miners, WAMUA, and allied organisations, the report brings together community evidence, legal analysis, and lived experience that corporate disclosures systematically erase. From silicosis and TB among mineworkers, to Kabwe’s toxic inheritance, to unrehabilitated mines and capital flight, the report exposes a clear pattern: profit without repair, accountability deferred, and exit without restitution. As Anglo accelerates its withdrawal from South Africa, this publication asks the question government and investors are avoiding: Who pays when mining capital leaves, and who decides that the debt is settled? This report will be taken up and debated at the MAC Summit, where affected communities move the conversation from documentation to consequence: 🕘 09h45–10h45 | Plenary 2 Corporate Accountability: Anglo Exit Corporate exit, law, and the energy transition With: • Duma Gqubule (Economist & Researcher) • Rachel Palma Randle (ACTSA) • Palisa Fiona Makhaphela (Tlou Mogale Foundation) • Namo Chuma (Environment Africa Zambia) • Justice for Miners The MAC Summit is not an invited space. It is where communities set the agenda and insist: There can be no exit without accountability. 📖 Read the report: actsa.org/wp-content/uploads… ✊🏾 Join the debate at the MAC Summit #AngloAccountability #AccountabilityDeficit #MACUA #MACSummit #100YearDebt #CorporateExit #MiningAffectedCommunities #NoExitWithoutAccountability #JustTransition

We had a blast celebrating our Mid-Atlantic Achievers in National Harbor, Washington DC. Congratulations again to all our winners! #MACSummit

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MACUA and WAMUA held their first Marginalised Affected Communities (MAC) Summit on 07 February 2024, in Pretoria. The summit focused on addressing social injustices in mining-affected communities and called for amending the MPRDA to reduce the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy’s (DMRE) power and support marginalised communities. #MACUAWAMUA #MACSUMMIT #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs youtube.com/watch?v=w0lmCzA3…

Good Morning! #macsummit #at&t #midatlantic #wintergreen

#macsummit I am feeling like a superstar here. 🤩 team Waldorf in the building! This has been such a great experience so far! @Bh7316 @MrKay416 @hunter_celeta @404girl thank you so much for this opportunity 🥰

🏃🏽‍♀️🩵⛰️ Peaceful #MACSummit Thank you @MASMakeItMatter @404girl @DaleB1 for this experience 🫶🏽

Good Morning ☀️ from Wintergreen Resort ⛰️ #MACSummit

So excited for MAC Summit and the slopes! Can’t wait to see everyone out there! Conditions look good! 🏂🎿❄️ #MACSummit #midatlanticregion #AT&T

Our Mazi Choshane is over at the #MACSummit hosted by @macua_sa, leading the Commission on Minerals and the Environment. The summit brings together affected communities and environmental rights activists

✊🏾 We are at the #MACSummit, hosted by @macua_sa! The summit brings together mining affected communities, political parties & environmental rights activists. Today, we lay bare the human rights violations suffered by mining host communities & the lack of corporate accountability.

MAC Speaker Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara is a Marxist based in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He is the ED of the Zabalaza Pathways Institute which works with social movements to win transformative change. He is a popular educator, researcher, and writer who collaborates with and supports urban and rural social movements on struggles for popular alternatives from below. @mazibukokjara has occupied various political and senior roles, such as being the founding chairperson of the @TAC, @AIDC_RSA, and @OxfamSA board member, and edits several thought-leadership magazines, including @AmandlaMedia. In the #MACSummit, he will be probing the exclusion of communities from their own governance and how this reinforces the legacy of apartheid. #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MPRDADemocracySummit #MACUA #WAMUA #Yamua #MACSummit2024 #RadicalMacua

KE NAKO! After years of community building and transformation, MACUA is hosting its first annual Marginalised Affected Communities (MAC) Summit. The focus is on addressing social injustices, particularly in mining-affected communities. The primary goal is to call for an amendment to the #MPRDA, which currently gives too much power to @DMRE_ZA and @GwedeMantashe1 and neglects marginalised communities suffering the consequences of mining activities. With #Election2024 approaching, MACUA is determined to give you a platform to voice your concerns. This year we make history and we want you to be part of it. In the Summit, multitudes of activists will engage in robust and revolutionary discussions to #ScraptheMPRDA, currently framed to oppress those who are exposed to incalculable costs of harmful mining activities, which disregard the affected communities and their land. @r2kcampaign, which focuses on basic rights, freedom of expression and access to information, will be part of the collective in the #MACSummit where we are advocating to #ScraptheMPRDA which currently gives too much power to @DMRE_ZA and @GwedeMantashe1 and neglects marginalised communities who suffer irreparable consequences as a result of mining activities, thus infringing our Right 2 Know and FPIC (Free, Prior and Informed Consent). #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #MPRDADemocracySummit #MACUA #WAMUA #yamua #MACSummit2024

We are thrilled to be part of MACUA's 1st annual Marginalised Affected Communities Summit, tackling social injustices in mining-affected communities. Let's work together to create positive change! #MACSummit #SocialJustice #CommunityBuilding