By Dr Nick King
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What happens when a group of people believe that the poor are being manipulated for the personal gain of a few; believe that South Africa’s ‘growth’ orientated development path has the potential to do more harm than good for people who depend heavily upon the natural environment in which they live; believe that there is a development path that will bring better livelihoods to a greater majority… (Val Payn)
Posted on June 30th, 2007 by admin
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Dear Editor
Nomangesi Malunga, chairman of Xolco’s, concerns about people along the Wild Coast having a right to decent jobs and a basic standard of living are highly commendable. However, it would do well for Directors of Xolco to take a hard streetwise look at the supposed benefits Australian exploration mining company MRC will deliver to Wild Coast communities, least they end up manipulated into an exploitative deal that will not deliver on all it promises. For MRC publicity blurbs do not entirely line up with information on MRC’s Xolobeni website, nor with information revealed during close questioning in the public participation process. [Read more...]
Posted on June 28th, 2007 by admin
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A letter sent to various goverment departments expressing reservations about the objectivity of terminology used in public participation meetings re mining, that I attended. ( Val Payn)
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Posted on June 27th, 2007 by admin
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GCS/ Mazizi Msutu
ADDITIONAL CONCERNS RAISED RE DSR/ XOLOBENI MINING’
Dear Ayanda/ Trudy
Please could you table these additional concerns of Sustaining the Wild Coast for the DSR
In no particular order of importance.
That:-
- under the current ‘climate’ and circumstances of tension and mistrust along WC it is impossible for anyone to come to an informed and objective opinion of what is best for the region, let alone for affected communties to do so.
- there seems more than enough probability that a small group of people are manipulating events/ issues to make it appear that there is far more popular support for the mining than is actually the case. [Read more...]
Posted on June 25th, 2007 by admin
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Sunday Tribune: June 24, 2007 Edition 1
by Erika Schutz
FRUSTRATED residents near the proposed Xolobeni Mineral Sands Project site in Pondoland have threatened to tear down weather monitoring equipment because they feel they have been kept in the dark about dune mining.
The 150 residents were angry when they found out a BEE company, Xolco had, in 2003, signed an agreement with mining company Transworld Energy Minerals (TEM) for a junior shareholding of 9% ostensibly to channel benefits to the community. [Read more...]
Posted on June 24th, 2007 by admin
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Following a public meeting at the Xolobeni Tribal Authority on Monday June 18 approximately 150 local residents from five villages affected by the dune mining proposal, demanded a direct meeting with Mark Caruso, CEO of Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC), and his South African representative John Barnes who runs TEM (Pty) Ltd the wholly owned South African subsidiary. [Read more...]
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By Guy Rogers Environment & Tourism Editor - The Herald - 13 June 2007
CONSERVATION and ecotourism on the Wild Coast have received a huge boost in the form of a R46-million donation from the UN Development Programme.
Project co-ordinator Xolani Funda said the money would be channelled through the World Bank‘s global environmental facility to the Eastern Cape Parks Board in a five-year project, and the board would use the funds to improve the management capacity of all the conservation agencies in the area. [Read more...]
Posted on June 13th, 2007 by admin
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