Wild Coast

[Skimmer]

Help protect our landing areas....
There are plans to open a mine at Xolobeni on the Wild Coast – see http://www.wildcoast.co.za/xolobeni
If you have an objection to this then please add your name to the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/xolobeni/ ... -sign.html
I have also posted this at AVCOM.

[andreb]

Mine the sh!t out of the place. Creates jobs for people like me!!!
We need jobs more than we need a pristine little area around an airfield. There is already serious unemployment adn crime on the Wild Coast. Mine is not a big deal in the greater scheme of things. IMHO.

[Nkwazi]

Mine the sh!t out of the place. Creates jobs for people like me!!!
We need jobs more than we need a pristine little area around an airfield. There is already serious unemployment adn crime on the Wild Coast. Mine is not a big deal in the greater scheme of things. IMHO.

What do you care, you're running away to Australia

[Wart]

andreb, you obviously have never had the privilege of having visited the Wild Coast. Crime along the coast is minimal and I have met the most pleasant and accommodating people along that stretch of our country. They are very pro controlled development but stripping the coast is not the way to do it. Very soon every man and his dog will have access to this pristine area and then it will be raped and become devoid of the fantastic sea-life that exists now.

Have a heart and stop this Australian company from raping our country!

[AndyG]

This is the area they want to mine

[AndyG]

More

[Tumbleweed]

Would be OK if they could get the balance right i.e.

The Entrepeneur gets to make a lot of money.- They are the last and only hope in creating and building an economy.

Environmental Impact Assessment. Can't trust any of them coz they serve their client, but would be nice if a concession could be awarded based on honest fundamentals and securities available for offending the rehabilition proccess and time frame.

Social Obligation. It's fine to say pay royalties to a chief and his bud's and there has been relative success like the Bafokeng Tribe, but those Transkei lot have done jack to get off there arse and it's gonna look the same in 20 years time. They did nothing to build on the Wild Coast Casino and the biggest income earners are the pensioners, who have to look after aids orphans and bastard children with grants from the most corrupt government in Africa.

Now at least if they offer international bursaries now to the hand full of olcal bright kids, they might have a local mining engineer, surveyor, accountant e.t.c. when the place is operational and not appoint politically correct tokens.

Employment. The reason why the mines recruit from neighbouring countries is because our unemployed prefer playing with fu$%^*ing cell phones and want to work "computor and IT" They'll fill the security, driver and safety officer posts, but will buss in the rest.

If the other roll players like roads dept, Eskom, Telkom, become efficient and proactive there's a chance. You need to see how the roads here are Fu#$^ed because they have allowed overloaded trucks to pound these roads that were'nt designed for that. Just see the road mortality rate, besides accident and rim/ tyre replacement to get an idea. You don't even think of driving in the mist here.

Anyway, thats enough of fixing the world for today, just vote me for Prez.

[kloot piloot]

To mine, or not to mine is not my concern.

But the devious "under the table" method of how the deal has been approved by DME (again)-refer the arms deal) really gets me hot under the collar !

It is (again) riddled with fraud and corruption. What angers me even more, is the fact that we blame Africa mentality for it. Yet, it is the greed and bribes paid by modern countries that leads Africa to its own exploitation and downfall.

When will we learn ?

[kloot piloot]

... oh, by the way, Tumbleweed, just point me to the nearest polling station, cause you got my vote for Prez !

[MILO]

Plans to mine Wild
Coast postponed
Controversial plans to mine titanium at Xolobeni on a pristine stretch of the Wild Coast have been put on hold.
The decision came after Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica declared that more consultation with
the community is needed.
I picked this up in the newspaper, just shows you how much influence us Microlighters wield, move over Avcom.......

[Tumbleweed]

Ja......you check.

And we did'nt even start getting cross yet.

[andreb]

Guys, my comments were tongue in cheek!

I am however very pro safe and responsible development and mining. We really need the jobs and the influx of capital. As far as I know royalties to local tribes are being phased out and will be paid to DME instead. They will hen resdistribute.
Stripping the dunes at Richards bay has created a lot of controversy, but also a lot of wealth and jobs and development. I am not pro that sort of mining, but there shoudl be a balance between mining and teh environment. If any of you know the SA mining laws, you will know that it is impossible to mine without putting away vast sums of money to rehabilitate the environment. This is non negotiable and enforced by DME in order to grant you the licenses.

Even though I am going to Oz I stillove this country and care about it's people and beauty. I grew up in Durban and I know the Natal coats and Wild Coast very well. To tell me crime does not exist there is no quite accurate. Go and tell the same story to the hundreds of tourists who camp and travel there every year and get robbed and broken into. I have very close forends and relatives who have been victimes of crime there. Not to mention the odd murder!