At the end of January 2023, the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) in South Africa, a social movement of community activists fighting to protect land and environmental rights, received information that there was a plot to assassinate Nonhle Mbuthuma and Thwesha Silangwe.

The ACC and both leaders have been at the forefront of negotiations about moving the N2 Wild Coast Highway from the Amadiba coast to further inland, a matter which has received heavy opposition from several interested parties who continue to push for open cast titanium mining in Xolobeni, despite 20 years of community opposition.

Nonhle Mbuthuma is the spokesperson of ACC who has received death threats previously in 2020.