GammetThanks for sharing that wonderful production, reminds me a...

Gammet

Thanks for sharing that wonderful production, reminds me a lot of the Al Gore film about climate change.

The truest word spoken is in reference to the Khoi San people being the indigenous people of the west coast and all of South Africa, who literally have been treated as second class citizens by both the colonial whites and the zulu and xosa blacks today. Apparently some people don't have the right kind of tan.

I am surprised that I didn't see in the credits that this film was proudly sponsored by ???????, lets think which company would stand to gain if MRC/MSR was forced to close down? What company would benefit with the expansion not going ahead the most? That would have to be a company that currently produces mineral sands IMO.

And found it extremely odd that there was no mention of the radioactive multi million tonne tailings/reject dump just up the road at a mine 10-15km's north which has been operating there for circa 30 years, which is an environmental disaster that will render the earth there toxic for longer than a few generations.

Mr Lyons, will write & speak about whatever the highest bidder pays him to allegedly.

For any readers that have never been in the area, it is a semi arid environment that is bordering on desert all year round, hence not too many trees grow in the region (very similar to Dongera in WA just with less annual rainfall, which ironically is where Iluka have been mining for many a year).

The farmers in the region cannot survive without water supplied to them via concrete canals (built post WW2 by the migrant Italians historically) that comes from over 100km away in the Clanwilliam damn, or they do risk over grazing as stated by Mr Englebrecht the white farmer.

Its not the first time this sort of corporate propaganda has been produced to stop MSR from moving forward, it is the exact MO as what was done in Xolobeni.

If you look at the protesters from those impoverished areas closely, you have to ask yourself where those people can get the funds to make protesting signs and have printed t-shirts being anti mining, yet they can't afford shoes.

I guess we will have to wait and see if current leadership has the strategic capability to navigate the circumstances.


DYOR
IMO