VANISHING HERITAGE: Thonga fishing families count the cost of decades-old eviction from Kosi Bay

2026-03-05 - 09:43

In creating the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa chose ecotourism over extractive mining for the region’s development. But conservation authorities inherited an apartheid-era model of exclusion, which may continue the erasure of Thonga fishing culture from the landscape.