A coalition of civil society groups has gone to court to block the development of a planned heavy industry zone in Limpopo, saying a"clear conflict of interest" means the project should be halted.
The organisations say the company set up to run the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone is linked to the provincial department responsible for granting environmental authorisation for building to commence. "The environmental impact assessment process upon which the environmental authorisation is based is fatally flawed," the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, the Herd Nature Reserve and Living Limpopo said in court papers lodged with the Polokwane High Court last month. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
_Business I am so sick and tired of a anti human anti poor greenies
_Business Don’t worry, it won’t look like the plans anyway. It’ll end up being one small brick building, no windows or doors, and an open pit latrine. Meanwhile someone with connections will have scraped 95% commission off the top.
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_Business This civil society groups pissed me off, why are they given airtym and attention than us voters
_Business If is the Musina-Makhando Special Economic Zone , they can go ahead, lots of communities taken advantage of.
_Business Why i nrver see this group complaining about ESKOM crisis
_Business These groups are worse than the corrupt state.
_Business So a Civil society groups is blocking industrial zone which will help civil society to get employment
_Business There goes employment of 1000s
_Business These special interest groups get funding from US and EU master to keep countries like SA on its knees. These groups must be unmasked for the economic terrorists they are. They do not serve anyone in SA's interest. We need development not ideology.
_Business The ecofascism in cahoots with the liberal core assist in the deindustrialization and destruction of SA economy.