Mon, 29 Sep 2008
A PROJECT to mine titanium in the Xolobeni region of Eastern Cape, granted to Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM), has been stopped in its tracks by Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica, Business Day reported. [Read more...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Louis
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By: Christy van der Merwe
Published on 4th August 2008
The Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) has granted ASX-listed mining junior Mineral Commodities (MRC) the mining right for a portion of the Xolobeni Mineral Sands project, along South Africa’s Wild Coast. [Read more...]
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by Louis
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21 Sep 2008
Derek Alberts
WE don’t know whether to laugh or cry about the amicable understanding between the Msunduzi Municipality and labour over last week’s sabotage of water and electricity supplies. [Read more...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Louis
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September 21, 2008 Edition 2
Annie Dorasamy
After a mammoth battle to save pristine wilderness along the Wild Coast, there seems to be a glimmer of hope for Xolobeni, the traditional homeland of the AmaDiba people. [Read more...]
Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by Louis
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LYNLEY DONNELLY - Sep 17 2008 06:00
A community tourism project in the Mkambati provincial reserve on the Wild Coast — halted in its tracks nearly five years ago — could have provided the region with about half a billion rand, within its first 10 years of operation.
This equates to just over R4-million a month for one of the poorest regions in South Africa.
This is according to Colin Bell, former chief executive of Wilderness Safaris, the tourism company that won the tender to develop a portion of the reserve in 2003. [Read more...]
Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Louis
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Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Louis
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2008/09/15
MINERALS and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has for the first time admitted that the consultation process into the planned multi-billion rand titanium mining project at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast was “flawed”. [Read more...]
Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Louis
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