Campaigners have forced the biggest shareholder in a titanium mining project on south Africa's 'Wild Coast' to withdraw, reports Rachel Lees. But they now fear the project itself will continue under the auspices of local 'front' companies, while the big profits enrich the British and Australian investors that are the real masters of Africa's neo-colonial minerals boom.
… that are the real masters of Africa's neo-colonial minerals boom. In a statement … this new arrangement would be no more than a neo-colonial facade - where some local front …
Wealthy countries and agribusiness want farmland, poorer countries need capital – but what happens to the locals? By Martin Large and Neil Ravenscroft
… their peasants at home prepared British colonialists to expropriate land in Patagonia … land-grab is being driven by the ideology of neo-economic liberalism of the free market, … traditional agriculture. Second, neo-liberal economics treats such commons as …