On the minute News in the Weskus
Most of South Africa’s crude oil is stored and traded at Saldanha Bay. What happened to the oil and who pocketed the money? The following article appeared in BizNews on 22 August 2016. It leaves more questions than answers and[…]
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Work at the notorious Elandsfontein phosphate mine seems to be continuing as usual despite an urgent pending Supreme Court case brought by the West Coast Environmental Protection Association to stop the mining company EEM from continuing without the essential licences[…]
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Very interesting . . . Any expert advice/comment? With a Steel Plant, gas-powered power plant and a phosphate mine in the picture, the waters of the Langebaan Lagoon and Saldanha Bay is BETTER for aquaculture projects? It will be detrimental[…]
Read moreThe Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) proposes to establish a sea-based Aquaculture Development Zone (ADZ) in Saldanha Bay, which is intended to attract and incentivise investment in the sector, provide marine aquaculture services, manage the risks associated with[…]
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While the Western Cape Government and other Powers That Be seem hellbent to trade the traditional eco-tourism based economy of the West Coast that stood the test of time for massive and ultra-invasive industrialization and mining projects, one can only[…]
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Terwyl niemand nog aangekeer is in verband met verlede week se voorval van gewapende roof by die Engen 1 Stop en Wimpy Restaurant nie, het voorvalle van huisbraak en diefstal uit voertuie ernstige afmetinge begin aanneem in Langebaan. Kaptein Christo[…]
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Weskus se eerste vroue-mynbaas? Adelaide wil werk skep, maar nie ten koste van natuur Adelaide Ruiters lyk nie soos ‘n mynbaas nie. Sy is ‘n sjiek, sjarmante vrou met ‘n spontane lag en geselstrant. ‘n Regte Kaapse girl – van[…]
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Die stofwolke stapel nog op oor die omstrede Elandsfontein-fosfaatmyn en nou het ‘n vrou wat sommer studente gekry het om haar omgewingsimpakstudies te doen, ook die weskus se fosfaatryke grond in haar visier . . . Boonop daag sy[…]
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Die omstredenheid rondom die skielike fosfaatmynbedrywighede wat die weskus se ondergrondse waterbronne en bewaringsgebiede bedreig, raak al hoe groter namate meer ongerymdhede en selfs bespiegelinge oor die Guptas se betrokkenheid na vore kom. Eers was daar die oorhaastige toekenning van[…]
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Whilst rumours are spreading like wildfire that the drainage of underground water veins to prepare for the mining process has already commenced at the Elandsfontein phosphate mine, the legal team of WCEPA is waiting for a court date to stop[…]
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