Beachfront protest against Shell's seismic activity at the Wildcoast in search of oil and gas underwater.
Shell's plan to search for oil and gas off the Wild Coast is dead in the water after the Constitutional Court set aside its exploration right on Friday.
The ruling overturns a 2024 Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) decision that had upheld the exploration right.
That decision gave the mineral resources department a chance to keep the project alive by going back to the Wild Coast communities for the proper public consultation that never happened in the first place.
Impact Africa was granted the right in 2014 and brought Shell in on a half share seven years later, with the two companies spending about R1.1bn on it.
