On the website of the M&G Centre for Investigative Journalism, Lionel Faull reports on the Moutonshoek mineral rights controversy, revealing that a Mineral Resources official was in a “close personal relationship” with controversial mine bids businessman. The full report can be read on the website, here … and is also quoted below: A businessman involved [...]
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SAP raids Minerals Department in corruption investigation
Read on www.mineweb.com about the SAP’s raid on offices of Imperial Crown Trading and of the Department of Mineral resources over the alleged corrupt issuance of rights to part of the huge Sishen iron ore deposit. Read the full report on the website, here The Mail & Guardian newspaper also reported on the matter, saying [...]
Continue →Prospecting licence granted!
Dear friends Summary of current events Apparently Bongani Minerals was awarded a Prospecting Right in the Verlorenvlei catchment on 1 July 2011 – landowners have received letters from Bongani and Withers Environmental. A Prospecting Right stamped by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) and a valid EMP have yet to be seen – legal counsel [...]
Continue →Verlorenvlei Coalition press statement 22 July 2011
Selling our environment downstream – who really benefits? Right to prospect apparently granted On 1 July 2011 the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) apparently granted Bongani Minerals a right to prospect for tungsten in the Moutonshoek Valley, the major catchment of the Verlorenvlei, a RAMSAR site (yet unprotected). “We don’t even know if this is [...]
Continue →New revelations in mineral rights controversy (Mail & Guardian)
A business involved in a controversial bid to mine tungsten in an environmentally sensitive area of the Cape’s west coast has close personal ties with the mineral resources department official who was responsible for processing the mineral prospecting rights at the time, the Mail & Guardian has learned.
Continue →The time has come to save the Vlei!
Decades after conservationists called for the Verlorenvlei near Elands Bay on South Africa’s West Coast to be afforded formal conservation protection to preserve its biodiversity, this Ramsar site is still under threat. A local authority, Bergriver Municipality, has now taken action which could turn the years of environmental neglect around. Twenty-five years ago conservationists called [...]
Continue →Piketberg Art Weekend 29 to 31 October
Artists in Piketberg are joining hands to create awareness of the beautiful and ecologically sensitive Verlorenvlei wetland, a RAMSAR-listed site that runs all the way from the Piketberg mountain range to Elands Bay on the West Coast. This important freshwater source, rich in bird, animal, and plant life (including many rare and threatened species), is [...]
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