New revelations in mineral rights controversy

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...

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...

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...

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...

New revelations in mineral rights controversy (Mail & Guardian)

Mail & Guardian | May 13-19 2011 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...

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...