Sonjica vs Spoor - it's a classic showdown that has rural villagers and traditional leaders on the Wild Coast tackling the South African government for not protecting their land against mining practices which they consider exploitative and rapacious...Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica...recently approved plans by...Mineral Resource Commodities, to start stripping coastal dunes along South Africa's pristine Wild Coast of titanium-enriched minerals...[Lawyer for the community, Richard] Spoor said the case now being taken to the High Court, and possibly the Constitutional Court, would essentially be asking whose rights are more important: a corporation's right to exploit mineral resources for the benefit of an elite few, or rights of thousands of people powerless in the face of the buying power of the mining industry and questionable government decisions, such as the Xolobeni mining deal.