It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists

(Blue Ridge Public Radio) The daughter of Fikile Ntshangase says that last October, three armed men entered her mother’s home and shot her dead. Ntshangase had publicly questioned a local coal mine that she thought was — quite literally — undermining the small South African town where she lived, located about 360 miles east of Johannesburg.

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