Entrevistas

This 12-episode radio program series produced by Radio Jugal 98.1 Mhz with the financial grant provided by Cultural Survival under Community Media Fund, each episode bring the voices of local government, Indigenous Peoples representatives on the role of local government for promotion of Indigenous Peoples rights in the laws, plans and programs of the government. The rights of Indigenous Peoples mainly their right to land, water and natural resources including socio-cultural and linguistic rights in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ILO Convention no.

This 12-episode radio program series produced by Radio Jugal 98.1 Mhz with the financial grant provided by Cultural Survival under Community Media Fund, each episode bring the voices of local government, Indigenous Peoples representatives on the role of local government for promotion of Indigenous Peoples rights in the laws, plans and programs of the government. The rights of Indigenous Peoples mainly their right to land, water and natural resources including socio-cultural and linguistic rights in line with the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and ILO Convention no.

In this interview, John Cloete from Radio West Coast  interviews Naomi Cloete, a small-scale fisher from Paternoster, and they talk about the reality of the poverty that fishermen live in, they talk also about how generation after generation of fisher-boys become fishermen because there simply is no other life for them on these shores. Naomi also tells us how fisher folk has to suffer, partly because of policy but more worryingly by the national silence that shrouds the Indigenous Peoples of the Western cape coastlines.

In December 2021 Oil giant Shell's plans to conduct seismic surveys off South Africa's Wild Coast to prospect for oil and gas reserves below the seabed have been temporarily halted by an online petition by environmentalists, indigenous groups, and fisheries organizations.