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Summary of Draft Policy by Masifundise Development Trust
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) is on track and steadily moving ahead as it is embarking on the fishing rights allocations process. The consultative process is in full swing and has officially commenced last week as the Draft Revised General Policy on the Allocations and Management of Fishing Rights was released and [...]
Press statement by the World Forum of Fisher Peoples in response to the Global Partnership for Oceans
In a compelling ‘Call on Governments’ by the World Forum of Fisher Peoples (WFFP) and the World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF), the organizations renounce the global push for the introduction of private property rights as a tool to manage the ocean’s fish resources. Instead, the organizations appeal governments to look towards [...]
Flawed interim policy offers little relief to fishers.
Masifundise wrote an opinion letter expressing deep concern about the mismanagement of the interim policy. The letter was published on March 3, 2013 in the Weekend Argus: Sunday Views, Page 22. Flawed interim policy offers little relief to fishers There are deep flaws in the management of the Interim Relief dispensation for small-scale fishers which [...]
Rest In Peace Mr. Zolile “Ghost” Ndindwa.
Dear friends It was with great sadness that we received the news of the passing of Masifundise founder member and trustee Zolile “Ghost” Ndindwa. He died in a motor vehicle accident while travelling between Gugulethu and Khayelitsha, on Sunday , 24 February 2013. He devoted his life to the quest for universal justice and particularly [...]
Report – Fisheries Governance for Food Security:
Report – Fisheries Governance for Food Security: What lies behind the concept of Rights-Based Fisheries? Today, the governance failures are recognised and new solutions are sought to set the record straight and move toward sustainable fisheries. Both the EU and the World Bank proposes Rights-Based fisheries management as the solution, but evidence from some of [...]
Coastal Links completes two-day NEC in Durban
13 February 2012 Coastal Links SA has held its first National Executive Committee meeting since it became a national organisation in November 2012. The meeting took place on 11 and 12 February in Durban and was attended by representatives from the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal. Staff members of Masifundise were also [...]
Coastal Links completes two-day NEC in Durban
13 February 2012 Coastal Links SA has held its first National Executive Committee meeting since it became a national organisation in November 2012. The meeting took place on 11 and 12 February in Durban and was attended by representatives from the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape and Kwazulu Natal. Staff members of Masifundise were also [...]
Today is World Fisheries Day: This years’ theme is “Looking for a Nuclear Free World”
World Fisheries Day: 21 November 2012 Looking for a Nuclear Free World It has been proved on 13th March 2011, through the Fukushima Disaster in Japan, that there is no safety against Nuclear Plants in the World. Nobody knows how to handle the situation in and around Japan, the coast and the sea. The radiation [...]
Coastal Links and Masifundise road show travels to the Eastern Cape and KwazuluNatal
Ten members of the Coastal Links executive committee and staff of Masifundise have embarked on a 13 day road show to fishing communities in KwazuluNatal and the Eastern Cape. The team set off on 29 July and will return on 11 August 2012. The visit to various areas in the two provinces will give the [...]
Preparation for the phasing in of Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) policy
Masifundise and Coastal Links are engaging the Department of Forestry and Fisheries about the implementation of the new Small Scale Fisheries (SSF) policy. The policy was adopted three months ago after many years of campaigning by Masifundise and Coastal Links. A two day workshop between DAFF representatives, five Coastal Links members, two Masifundise staff members [...]
Coastal Links
Coastal Links is a community based network of fishing coastal communities in the Western Cape whose establishment was facilitated by Masifundise in 2004. Coastal Links comprises fisher associations; women’s groups; youth groups; sports and cultural groups; general community based organisations; and individual community members.
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Peter Cloete Relief Fund
In honor of Oom Peter Cloete – Ebenhaezer, who died at sea on the 30 March 2010.
Peter Cloete, fondly known as Oom Peter was a fisher from Ebenhaeser - a small fishing community along the Olifantsriver on the North West Coast of South Africa. He was both a fisher and a community leader and took the defense of his communities fishing tradition very seriously. Read More
