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Diamond mining giant Trans Hex has been prohibited from mining along selected areas near the Olifants River estuary and is now required to update its decades-old management plan, following an out-of-court settlement agreement reached with Protect the West Coast. Diamond mining giant Trans Hex h...
An environmental nonprofit has lodged a high court application to stop the firm, Moonstone, from mining near the fishing community of Doringbaai.
’This is where land was first stolen,’ said Tauriq Jenkins, of the Goringhaicona Khoena Council, a Khoi traditional group opposed to the project. We want a World Heritage Site. We do not want 150 000 tons of concrete.’
* Some Khoi and San say project threatens heritage * Developers say project underwent public approval procedure By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, June 3 (Reuters) - For the Khoi and San - South Africa's first inhabitants - a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy. The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession. Today it is again the scene of another conflict, this time over a development where construction is due to begin this month and wh...
Heritage dispute engulfs site chosen for Amazon’s new African HQ Reuters 1 hour ago By Wendell Roelf By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - For the Khoi and San - South Africa's first inhabitants - a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy. The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, it was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession. Today it is again the scene of another conflict, this time over a development where construction is due to begin this month and...