We don’t know to what extent the ANC rupture has impacted on the undertaking by national Minerals and Energy Minister Buyelwa Sonjica to investigate the consultation process into the controversial multi-billion rand project to mine the Pondoland dunes, but assume she will stick to her guns.

It must be said that without an indefatigable determination to block the bid to mine the dunes of Pondoland, chances are that the landscape already would have suffered the ravages of diesel-belching bulldozers.

Marshalled principally by the Amadiba Crisis Committee and an entity known as Sustaining the Wild Coast, a broad alliance of individuals, organisations and communities stood up to the bullying tactics of the mining proponents, who, for reasons not entirely clear, evidently thought the opposition to be a push-over.

They clearly were wrong.

Last word

A person who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. — Confucius.

Posted on September 29th, 2008
Filed under: Current Issues