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Continue →Bongani finds another way to go ahead with drilling – please help us stop them!
Dear friends Our long and consistent battle to preserve the Verlorenvlei continues and once again we are calling on you to add your fervour and support! As you may be aware, Bongani Minerals started to drill illegally in Moutonshoek Valley in March this year, contravening the Land Use Planning Ordinance. They, together with the farm […]
Continue →Baboon Point Cave Elands Bay – Provincial Heritage Site under threat once more
Please read the attached Background Information Document from Withers Environmental Consultants and register as an interested and affected party to comment by 4 June 2012.1197-Notice of HWC application to IAPs 30 Apr 2012
Continue →Verlorenvlei Coalition Member update: 29 March 2012
1. Municipality halts prospecting in Moutonshoek The Verlorenvlei Coalition (VC) welcomes the granting of an interim interdict against Bongani Minerals (Pty) Ltd. and a local landowner to cease prospecting activities for tungsten in the Moutonshoek Valley. The interdict, lodged by the Bergrivier Local Municipality and granted in the Cape High Court on Thursday, 22 March […]
Continue →Business Day: “Municipality wins bid to halt mine exploration in Piketberg” (29.03.2012)
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Continue →Die Burger: Hof stuit myngroep (28.03.2012)
Click image to view full article. Note that the journalist used the wrong caption – this is Verlorenvlei itself. It is additionally like that she misquoted Johannes van der Walt in that they may be drilling holes of 7 cm in diameter perhaps, but certainly not only 7 cm deep!
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