The KwaZulu-Natal fishing community has launched a campaign against gas and oil exploration along the coastline. They say government permission allowing seismic drilling tests will destroy the livelihood of about 12‚000 subsistence fisher people. In 2017, the Petroleum Agency of SA reportedly granted US company Schlumberger a licence to conduct a 3D seismic survey in South African waters. South Durban Community Environmental Alliance head Desmond D’Sa said the group wanted to send a clear message to the oil cartel that they would not allow them to destroy the KwaZulu-Natal coastline. "You have destroyed other parts of the world‚ don’t destroy us‚ our fishing reserves‚ our food‚ our benefits to our homes and families. We are today launching the project called Fish Not Oil. We can’t eat oil and we can’t eat money‚ but we can eat fish and sell fish to feed our families," he said. "By government allowing oil companies who have destroyed the Gulf of Mexico to come and destroy our coast i...
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