Obituary: 'Bazooka' Radebe, defied politicians who backed mining of pristine dunes

Sikhosiphi "Bazooka" Radebe, who has died in an apparent assassination in Mbizana in the Eastern Cape at the age of 51, was the leader of a fiercely fought campaign to stop an Australian company and its local BEE partner from mining along a pristine stretch of the Pondoland Wild Coast. The community, whose land this has been for 500 years, has argued that the opencast titanium mine - at 22km long and 1.