Goeie nuus vir Weskussers wat al moedeloos is met die voortslepende droogte en waterkrisis, is dat ‘n dik stroom water vir basiese menslike gebruik uit die Bergrivierdam stadig maar seker op pad is na hulle om die ergste byt uit[…]
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Wolwedans is ‘n regte Bosveld-paradys by die see . . .
‘n Klipgooi buite Mosselbaai op die Brandwag-grondpad begroet ‘n bosveld-landskap jou waar kameelperde, springbokke en eksotiese wildspesies nonchalant wei en die asemrowende tafereel vanuit die hoogte bespied. Dis die Wolwedans Game Farm & Country House – die jongste toevoeging tot[…]
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Cape Party to force Government to foot bill for sustainable water supply projects
The Cape Party has forcefully entered the national drought crisis and is making an urgent appeal to skilled professionals and businesses – locally and abroad – to provide proposals for sustainable water supplying projects to be funded by the Government.[…]
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Minister and DG of DWS support WCEPA’s High Court application against KROPZ
As the epic fight against the “illegal” Elandsfontein/KROPZ phosphate mine on the border of the West Coast National Park continuous, both the Minister and Director General of the Department of Water and Sanitation has indicated that they support the High[…]
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Cape High Court to STOP KROPZ from further dewatering Elandsfontein aquifer for a dormant mine . . .
First it was tanzanite mining king Mike Nunn’s controversial Elandsfontein Exploration and Mining (EEM) company that applied for mining rights to access the sedimentary phosphate on a piece of farmland adjacent to the West Coast National Park. No sooner did[…]
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Latest on the ongoing KROPZ/Elandsfontein mine and water debacle along the wild West Coast. . .
WATER, WATER all around . . . not a drop to drink . . . The West Coast Environmental Protection Association (WCEPA) responded as follows to a media release issued by Kropz Elandsfontein (Pty) Ltd on 8 September 2017[…]
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Elandsfontein, O Elandsfontein . . . en die sage duur voort terwyl die akwifers gemelk word . . .
Meer as ‘n jaar nadat weskusonTheline gewaarsku het teen die gevare wat Mike Nunn se omstrede fosfaatmynplanne vir die waterskaars Weskus inhou (skakels onderaan), is dié gewraakte multi-miljardrand projek onbepaald gestaak (glo oor swak fosfaatpryse) – nadat ‘n reuse-gebied in[…]
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HOW DO YOU SAVE A LAGOON? TUG OF WAR CONTINUES . . . WATCH FOCUS on SABC2 on Sunday!
The quest to save the unique Langebaan Lagoon from an avalanche of risky industrial developments such as a controversial phosphate mine and a huge aqua-farming development has become a tenacious and interesting tug-of-war between industrialization and nature conservation . .[…]
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Worst Water Crisis in over a Century maybe a long overdue WAKE-UP CALL to repriotise funding . .
While the West Coast and the entire Western Cape is crippled by the worst drought since 1904, it is maybe the catalyst that was needed to force the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to reconsider its priorities and make[…]
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West Coast lovers will have to unite and fight themselves against politicians and corruption threatening the region
While the critical drought in the Western Cape / West Coast is forcing the Powers That Be to take desperate measures to prevent a disaster, it has become obvious that communities and citizenry will have to unite and fight back[…]
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