EDITORIAL: Gwede Mantashe’s real enemy is the truth, not NGOs
13 October 2023 - 05:00
Addressing an international audience at Africa Oil Week in Cape Town this week, mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe took the opportunity to double down on his recent attacks on civil society organisations that have opposed new fossil fuel exploration and developments in SA.
“Foreign funded NGOs are being used to weaponise environmental preservation to block development in developing nations. This is a reality that we are faced within SA, hence we demand that these NGOs be registered and be made to declare their source of funding as it is done with political parties,” he said...
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