Multinational oil company, Shell Exploration and Production South Africa, will soon begin exploring the seabed in the ocean along the pristine Wild Coast of South Africa trying to find oil and gas and conservationists and environmental activists are livid. Now the Amadiba community, the same group of people that successfully fought opencast mining on their land, say enough is enough and are planning a protest march.
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