Sikhosiphi Rhadebe, also known as Bazooka, was an activist who was chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), an organisation campaigning against mining in Xolobeni in the Pondoland region of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.Goodbye Bazooka: Wild Coast anti-mining activist killed, Greg Nicoloson, Daily Maverick, 24 March 2016
Death and aftermath He was assassinated on 22 March 2016 when men posing as police shot him multiple times, and as of 2018 there were no arrests in his death.Two years later, still no arrests for murder of Xolobeni activist, Thembela Ntongana, GroundUp, 16 February 2018 It has been claimed that the police sabotaged the investigation.Wild Coast: Bazooka Rhadebe’s murder probe ‘sabotaged’ by police, Tony Carnie, Daily Maverick, 23 March 2018
While mining has a history of violence in general, Perth-based Mineral Commodities Limited (MRC), a mining company planning to mine the area, denied any link to the murder.
See also List of unsolved murders (2000–present) Political assassinations in post-apartheid South Africa Political repression in post-apartheid South Africa
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