Ikwezi Mining in Kliprand Farm managed to convince a few families living where the open cast mine would be located with promises of money, new homes and work at the mine. Lucky Shabalala, who works at the organisation Sisonke (which collaborates closely with SSNC’s partner organisation groundWork), arranged meetings and protests. In the course of his efforts, he discovered that the elected board was illegal, as only some of the residents had been allowed to elect family representatives. He also discovered that Ikwezi Mining’s permit for the mine had expired. He has been attacked three times. The worst time was outside a grocery store in Newcastle in March 2019. The mob surrounded Lucky and one of the leaders approached him with a gun in his hand. But then the security guards at the shopping mall came and saved him and sprayed pepper spray.