The Canadian mining company, First Quantum Minerals (FQM) brought a lawsuit against the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and two of its members Claude Kabemba and Edwar Lange (SARW) at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa. SARW is an independent, nonprofit organisation that monitors corporate and government’s conduct in the extraction of natural resources in Southern Africa. As part of its work, SARW assesses the extent to which these activities uplift the economic conditions of the SADC region’s communities. Over the past few years, in collaboration with Zambian civil society organisations and mining-affected communities, SARW has been monitoring the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of FQM in Solwezi District in the Northwestern Province of Zambia. On February 5, 2019, they published a report titled “Living in a Parallel Universe: FQM versus communities,” focusing on the plight of communities around FQM’s Kansanshi mine. The research found FQM’s CSR programme as not transforming the lives of mining communities and lacking commitment towards sustainable, inclusive development and social justice. FQM disputed the findings of the report, and eventually, the parties mutually agreed that SARW would undertake a second study, with FQM committing to avail themselves to their research team. A second report titled “First Quantum Minerals Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility: KANSANSHI MINE” was published in December 2020 with recommendations to both FQM and the government of Zambia on how to promote a mutually beneficial relationship between Kansanshi mine and the environment within which it operates. The report reaffirmed the findings in the first report. As a result of these two reports, FQM decided to file a SLAPP suit against SARW. In its defense SARW argues that the lawsuit intends to intimidate and censor the organisation.