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Submitted | first-name | support | top-concern | openletter | message |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2026-01-02 09:25:12 +02:00 | Johan | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2026-01-01 11:26:36 +02:00 | Andrew | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-31 07:46:03 +02:00 | Daria | No I do not | Water resource depletion and contamination | Yes I do | The destruction of the Greater Soutpansberg area by coal mining will not provide long term benefit to the south african population. In contrast it will only benefit a few highly connected south african politicians and the chinese goverment. The local landscape will be destroyed and the local water resources contaminated preventing the local population from sourcing water and any future sustainable ecotourism opportunities. The illegal mining happening must be stopped immediately as it gives the impression that South African laws can be ignored and legal process flouted. It is the duty of the goverment to protect the local population, their land and water resources from Chinese exploitation. |
2025-12-30 22:02:08 +02:00 | Willa | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-29 06:37:21 +02:00 | Amanda | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | The scheme to turn the wild heart of Limpopo into another Sacrifice Zone for coal and steel is extremely high-risk with grossly skewed benefits in favour of foreign and fossil fuel industry interests and will come at a terrible cost to the sensitive environment and scarce water resources, poor rural communities, local industries from farming to tourism and the emerging potential of the biodiversity economy, which are all vulnerable to the effects of highly polluting industries and the intensifying climate crisis, as well as South Africa’s ailing domestic steel industry which the MMSEZ will cannibalise, and the debt-burdened public purse given the eye-watering capital costs of developing the zone’s supporting infrastructure. |
2025-12-28 20:01:13 +02:00 | Louis | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-19 10:28:43 +02:00 | Gwen | No I do not | Other | No I do not | Israel continues to import coal from South Africa, with exports reaching record levels in 2025. Coal exports to Israel rose 20 percent to 667,442 tons in the three months to October 2025, the highest for any three-month period since February 2017, according to official South African Revenue Service data. Trade valued at approximately $178 million in 2024 and projected to reach record highs in 2025. South Africa’s share of Israel’s coal market is projected to more than triple from 2024 levels to 55 percent in 2025, making it the dominant supplier following Colombia’s ban on coal exports to Israel in August 2025. Why are people always blaming China and other countries but never mention Israel? |
2025-12-15 14:44:28 +02:00 | Jang Choob | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | No I do not | The fact that new coal mines are significantly more expensive than new renewable energy is well documented. If all coal mining were to cease tomorrow, it would still take the oceans 1000 years to recover. |
2025-12-15 07:06:48 +02:00 | Daria | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | Absolutely shocking that the goverment is willing to sacrifice Africas land heritage for short term compensation from China. A foreign country will be allowed to destroy the biodiversity and landscape of our childrens children. The goverment should not have the right to make such decisions to wipe out species and destroy the land resources and water sources of the local communities. |
2025-12-14 15:40:54 +02:00 | Danelle | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-14 10:37:04 +02:00 | Josias De Kock | No I do not | Large-scale expansion of coal mining | Yes I do | How can you justify doing coal mining forexports only, when the caol.is being sold to the european market and china for huge profits landing in the wrong pockets. South Africa needs the coal for its own power stations, but you are listening to supposed environmentalists of the world, that do not have SA in mind. |
2025-12-14 05:05:44 +02:00 | Cornelia | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-12 16:12:43 +02:00 | Karien | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | |
2025-12-11 09:20:01 +02:00 | Magi | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do | My concerns are the following: The Musina / Makhado SEZ - China is well known to bring in their own people to do the work, they strip the local enviroment and leave nothing behind for the local community. As with most other such projects in our country only an elite few South Africans gain from this while the rest of us lose out on our heritage and our livelihoods. The entire project should be scrapped instead of being allowed to bleed and infect anhy more of our beautiful country. Large-scale expansion of coal mining - We should be encouraging and exploring, and financing cleaner energy options for our country and our future. This determination to remain in the coal era should not be allowed to degrade our environment any further. Damming of the Limpopo River, Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation, and water resource depletion and contamination - I should not even need to mention this. Aren't there evironmental experts employed by the ministers who should be saying this themselves? If they aren't declining these kinds of projects then they should be fired. The repurcussions are obvious. We cannot risk this. Collateral damage to other local industries - the welfare of local communities and South Africans should come before anyone from other regions within out country, or other countries. Any illegal mining activites should be stopped immediately. The perpetrators should be fined heavily in order to cover the costs of rehabilitating the area, and any current or future business licenses should be revoked and declined. Lawlessnes of this nature should be severly punnished to start changing the tide of such behaviour. The same should apply in other areas in our country where similar illegal and destructive actions were taken by developers. |
2025-12-10 08:28:50 +02:00 | pieter | No I do not | Biodiversity loss, pollution and environmental degradation | Yes I do |