Oil Major Empowers West Coast Communities but is this Enough?

Coastal communities on the Cape West Coast are not saying much, but it turns out that corporate social investment (CSI) funds are being channelled to small-scale fishers.  TotalEnergies E&P South Africa says this is “to help strengthen them” which is all good and well, but fishing communities also “need stronger protection of their territories, customary rights and livelihoods against industrial fishing and aquaculture, coastal development, extractive industries and conservation initiatives”, says an NGO active in this sector for decades.