‘A spit in the face’: Protesters decry West Coast seismic survey (Onke Ngcuka – Daily Maverick)

Read the full article on Daily Maverick, 7 February 2022 written by Onke Ngcuka

Protesters and civic and climate organisations gathered at Muizenberg Beach in Cape Town on Sunday to call for an end to the seismic survey programme currently under way off the West Coast.

Several speakers addressed the crowd of about 100 people as to why the surveying by Australian geoscience company Searcher Geodata should come to an end.

Ocean Rebels, an Extinction Rebellion Cape Town performance group, gathered at the Cape Town protest on 6 February 2022 against a seismic survey off the West Coast. (Photo: Gallo Images / Daily Maverick / Victoria O’Regan)