Articles
- Shell throws in the towel as Amazon Warrior leaves South Africa – Energy Voice – 5 January 2022
- EDITORIAL: Why is Mantashe shilling for Shell? – Financial Mail – 16 December 2021
- To Shell in a handbasket: Broken promises are the sinister shadow of fossil fuel companies – Daily Maverick – 15 December 2021
- Shell seismic survey: new court hearing on Friday – GroundUp – 13 December 2021
- Now Wild Coast tribesmen take Shell to court – BizNews – 9 December 2021
- Kirsten Youens speaking at the “DEFENDING RIGHTS AND PROTECTING DEMOCRACIES IN THE FACE OF RISING INEQUALITY & AUTHORITARIANISM” Summit in Mozambique – 3 December 2021
- Legal challenge to South Africa mine expansion looks to set new landmark – Mongabay – 12 November 2021
- Environmental activism is an increasingly deadly vocation, study shows – Daily Maverick – 10 November 2021
- Lessons from the assassination of Fikile Ntshangase: Climate violence, the “Right to say No!”, uncompensated resource extraction, financial profiteering and unpaid ecological debt in South Africa’s coal mining belt – CADTM – 22 October 2021
- Defending the Defenders – webinar – YouTube – 22 October 2021
- Unforgettable Fikile’s Golden Dream – Save our iMfolozi Wilderness – 25 October 2021
- Remembering Fikile Ntshangase, a fearless environmental activist – Daily Maverick – 22 October 2021
- Opposition to South Africa coal mine persists a year after murder of activist – Mongabay – 22 October 2021
- A year on, family and rights group demand answers over murder of mining activist Fikile Ntshangase – Sowetan Live – 21 October 2021
- One year on, and still no justice for murdered KZN environmental activist – The Citizen – 20 October 2021
- Podcast – The Murder of Fikile – The Guardian – 19 October 2021
- Fundamentally flawed: Landmark court case falters, one year after murder of anti-mining activist Mam Fikile Ntshangase – Daily Maverick – 6 October 2021
- Tribute to Baba Ndlanzi – Save our iMfolozi Wilderness – 1 October 2021
- “My Mother’s Struggle Lives On” – Global Witness – 16 September
- Climate activists are being killed for trying to save our planet. There is a way to help – Bill McKibben – The Guardian – 13 September 2021
- Record number of environmental activists murdered – BBC News – 13 September 2021
- Last line of defence – Global Witness – 13 September 2021
- The value of land for people displaced by mining cannot be measured in monetary terms alone – Daily Maverick – 22 June 2021
- People or wildlife? Legal eagles spread their wings to cover both – Times Live – 13 June 2021
- All rise for KZN’s first pro bono enviro legal clinic – Zululand Observer – 15 June 2021
- Freedom isn’t free – Daily Maverick – 27 April 2021
- Community won’t back down in fight against expansion of Tendele coal mine in KZN, despite taking a legal beating – Daily Maverick – 28 February 2021
- Northern KZN mine can stay open as environmentalists lose court battle – Sunday Times – 10 February 2021
- A Community Torn Apart by Coal Mining Taught Me Environmental Rights Are Human Rights – Global Citizen – 21 January 2021
- Encroaching Risks for Mining Activists – Carte Blanche -17 January 2021
- World Bank reparations demanded for murder of frontline South African anti-coal activist – Bretton Woods Project -10 December 2020
- LATEST KILLING AMPLIFIES DANGER FACING RIGHTS ACTIVISTS IN SOUTH AFRICA – Fair Planet – 1 December 2020
- Mining brings death and division to KwaZulu-Natal – New Frame – 12 November 2020
- Slain activist ‘refused bribe’. – Sunday Times – 8 November 2020
- Tendele’s mine pollutes their air and water, residents claim – Mail & Guardian – 7 November 2020
- Mam’ Ntshangase murder: Lives of human rights defenders, whistle-blowers must be protected – IOL – 5 November 2020
- Ntshangase’s voice rings louder than gunshots – The Ecologist– 5 November 2020
- Environmentalists are under threat for defending their rights – Business Live – 3 November 2020
- Mining company – and KZN government – have a lot to answer for after assassination of activist Fikile Ntshangase – Daily Maverick – 2 November 2020
- We honour the memory of Fikile Ntshangase, Sikhosiphi ‘Bazooka’ Rhadebe and other fearless environmental warriors – Daily Maverick – 1 November 2020
- Fikile Nsthangashe: “I will die for my people” – Daily Maverick – 1 November 2020
- TRACEY DAVIES: Of mining, ethics and murder – Business Live– 29 October 2020
- Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Now she has been murdered – Roving Reporters – 23 October 2020
- VIDEO – The Week in Review – ILoveMelville Live – 25 October 2020
- Statement of Solidarity Following Murder of WHRD Fikile Ntshangase – Frontline Defenders – 24 October 2020
- Shock and fear following murder of Hluhluwe-Imfolozi activist Fikile Ntshangase – SABC News – 24 October 2020
- South African environmental activist shot dead in her home – The Guardian – 23 October 2020
- Fikile Ntshangase opposed a mine extension. Last night she was murdered – Groundup – 23 October 2020
- Muddying the waters in the Musina Makhado economic zone – Mail & Guardian – 22 October 2020
- Petroleum Project Stalled in the Bazaruto Seascape – July 2020
- Fighting for people and planet – Africa-Legal – 13 May 2020
- The future of East Africa’s last ‘mermaids’ hangs in the balance – Daily Maverick – 17 December 2019
- Sasol pushes for drilling near Bazaruto – BusinessLive – 15 December 2019
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Environmental report understates potential catastrophe on the East Coast – Green Times – 22 November 2018
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Fears drilling off coast may lead to major oil spill – Cape Times – 22 November 2018
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Shock judgement in KwaZulu-Natal coal mining case – Green Times – 21 November 2018
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For the sake of our whales, stop the bastards, Mantashe told – Times Select – 19 November 2018
- Dangers of being a Defender of Environmental Justice in South Africa – Saturday Star August 26,2017 and bizcommunity.com August 25, 2017
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Registered objectors not invited to Fuleni meeting – Zululand Observer May 5, 2016
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‘16 000 homes to be demolished’ for proposed mine –The Mercury on the 27 April, 2016
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Mining company reconsiders Zululand plans – The Mercury November 24, 2015
- Is absolutely nowhere safe from mining? – Independent on Saturday, October 3, 2015
- Anthracite mine fight gains momentum – Eyethu Bay Watch on September 16, 2015.
- Anthracite mine ‘fatally flawed’ –Daily News on Friday, September 4, 2015.
- ENVIRONMENTALISTS WARN, ‘Zululand coal mine ‘dangerous’ – The Mercury, August 6, 2015
- Demolition sticker outrage – The Mercury, Tuesday 28 April, 2015
- Coal mine scoping report ‘inadequate’ – The Mercury, Thursday, 9 April 2015
- Impact study for proposed coal mine rejected – The Witness, 17 October 2014
Interviews
- HLULUWE IMFOLOZI THREATENED BY MINING 50/50 Sunday 21 October 2018
- 50|50 documentary on the mining threat to Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Sunday 10 September, 2017
- 50/50 documentary on the mining threat to Thula Thula Game Reserve Sunday 17 December, 2017
- SAfm interview with Nancy Richards on the challenges facing environmental activists 24 November, 2017
Papers
Kirsten has published articles in several magazines and newspapers on a variety of subjects including the White Paper on Sustainable Coastal Management, the transportation of dangerous goods and prepared her final year LLB thesis on Strict Liability, Water Pollution and the Constitution. Her papers prepared in the course of her Environmental Masters included a paper on ground water pollution and the legislation pertaining thereto as well as integrated environmental management.
She presented a paper on Justiciability of Sustainable Development, with specific reference to the National Environmental Management Act at the International Association of Impact Assessments conference in October 2001. Kirsten has presented papers in 2003 at IIR conferences in Johannesburg on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods and on the proposed Waste Management Bill and the White Paper on Integrated Waste Management.
Kirsten wrote her Masters dissertation on Animal Rights: A Moral and Legal Discussion on the Standing of Animals in South African Law.
Kirsten presented two papers for presentation at the Symposium of Contemporary Conservation Practice to be held in Howick in October 2016 headed:
A Legal Discussion On The Illegal Trade Of Wildlife And Proposed Legislative Changes That Are Needed To Prevent The Criminal Decimation Of Our Species.
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