Comments on: Protest picnic against mining plans http://www.swc.org.za/protest-picnic-against-mining-plans.htm Sustaining and Saving the Wild Coast Wed, 05 May 2010 15:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bridget Comrie http://www.swc.org.za/protest-picnic-against-mining-plans.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1869 Bridget Comrie Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:28:41 +0000 http://www.swc.org.za/protest-picnic-against-mining-plans.htm#comment-1869 I think another walk should be arranged along the coast from Wild Coast Sun to Xolobeni. 0845700218 I think another walk should be arranged along the coast from Wild Coast Sun to Xolobeni.
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]]> By: Wild Coast http://www.swc.org.za/protest-picnic-against-mining-plans.htm/comment-page-1#comment-1594 Wild Coast Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:05:32 +0000 http://www.swc.org.za/protest-picnic-against-mining-plans.htm#comment-1594 Actually, it is important to note that the community leaders who met us at Mnyameni are so opposed to the mining of their ancestral lands that they have threatened to revolt, like in the 1960 "Pondo Uprising", if the government gives away their land to mining interests. It was clearly apparent from the community leaders who spoke out, and the the number of people present at the meeting, that the actual residents of the area are 100% opposed to the proposed strip-mining of their pristine dunes and grasslands. (I won't really bother to mention the affected indigenous forests [dust fallout] and literal damning of 5 breeding estuaries that the miners propose to utilize within this portion of the Pondoland Center of Endemism.) It was very sad to see the people who have been left unemployed - or under-employed - from the undermining (no pun intended) of eco-tourism (like Nonthle and Benny the tour guide) present at the meeting. But great to hear them speak out against the strip-mining and for sustainable eco-tourism. Even sadder to note the vandalization of the Amadiba (ex Transkei Hiking Trail) huts and the decimation of the Mzamba community Tourism Center (across the way from Wild Coast Sun). It's almost like (as if!?) the pro-mining lobby is trying to prove that all eco-tourism ventures are unsustainable because they can destroy them to prove their half-baked point. -- Jeff Brown Cell: 074-101 5170 / Fax: 086-532 3508 Masimanyane Mussel Rehabilitation and Masande Nursery ~ Nutritional Projects C O F F E E B A Y ~ W I L D C O A S T ++ Website: www.wildcoast.com Blog: www.wildcoast.com/jeff 8 Actually, it is important to note that the community leaders who met us at Mnyameni are so opposed to the mining of their ancestral lands that they have threatened to revolt, like in the 1960 “Pondo Uprising”, if the government gives away their land to mining interests.

It was clearly apparent from the community leaders who spoke out, and the the number of people present at the meeting, that the actual residents of the area are 100% opposed to the proposed strip-mining of their pristine dunes and grasslands. (I won’t really bother to mention the affected indigenous forests [dust fallout] and literal damning of 5 breeding estuaries that the miners propose to utilize within this portion of the Pondoland Center of Endemism.)

It was very sad to see the people who have been left unemployed – or under-employed – from the undermining (no pun intended) of eco-tourism (like Nonthle and Benny the tour guide) present at the meeting. But great to hear them speak out against the strip-mining and for sustainable eco-tourism.

Even sadder to note the vandalization of the Amadiba (ex Transkei Hiking Trail) huts and the decimation of the Mzamba community Tourism Center (across the way from Wild Coast Sun).

It’s almost like (as if!?) the pro-mining lobby is trying to prove that all eco-tourism ventures are unsustainable because they can destroy them to prove their half-baked point.

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Jeff Brown

Cell: 074-101 5170 / Fax: 086-532 3508

Masimanyane Mussel Rehabilitation and
Masande Nursery ~ Nutritional Projects
C O F F E E B A Y ~ W I L D C O A S T

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Website: http://www.wildcoast.com
Blog: http://www.wildcoast.com/jeff

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