September 07, 2008 Edition 1
Alyn Adams
Dear Minister Sonjica,
Just a note of support from a poorish white person, to remind you to keep your chins up in this time of tribulation. I say “poorish” because I know that, democratically speaking, I qualify as a prima facie elitest. [Read more...]
Posted on September 11th, 2008 by Louis
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Siyathemba Magogotyane
i am a geology student and think that tha wild caost should be mined for the bennefit of the community as it will gain skille and obs to provide for their famalies. [Read more...]
Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Louis
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Val Payn
Those who favour mining along the Wild Coast often portray the debate as being a dispute between ‘greenies’ who are opposed to ‘development’, and those who would bring ‘development’ and ‘economic opportunity’. [Read more...]
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Louis
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Rt. Hon. Madame Buyelwa Sonjica
Minister of Minerals & Energy
Private Bag X59
Pretoria 0001
Dear Minister,
Congratulations on your decision to allow the Australians to strip-mine the Wild Coast. As a child, my parents would force me to accompany them on camping trips to Mtentu estuary. I look back on those times with hatred in my heart. I always seemed to have sand up my nose and a bluebottle down my costume. The sun was too hot and the water was too cold. Once a crab almost took my foot off and I remember looking at the estuary and thinking, one day someone will come along and destroy you. And I will laugh. [Read more...]
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Louis
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Letter to the Editor: Business Report
The Wild Coast is littered with the wrecks of grandiose development plans that have come to grief in one of the most inaccessible and beautiful parts of the country. [Read more...]
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Louis
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By: Christy van der Merwe
Published on 5th September 2008
A Notice of Appeal has been filed with the Minister of Minerals and Energy to suspend and appeal a decision to award a mining right to ASX-listed Mineral Commodities (MRC), to mine for titanium bearing minerals at the Xolobeni project area, along a portion of South Africa’s Wild Coast. [Read more...]
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Louis
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