Save our Beautiful WATER SCARCE Limpopo valley from coal mining

LIMPOPO IS THE BREAD & FRUIT BASKET OF SA.
... SA FOOD SECURITY THREATENED BY CoAL MINING ... !!!
Limpopo Province is the Bread and Fruit Basket of South Africa producing up to 60% of all fruit, vegetables maize meal, wheat and cotton...
Limpopo is also one of South Africa's richest agricultural areas. More than 45% of the R2-billion annual turnover of the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market comes from Limpopo.

The Province is endowed with abundant agricultural resources and it is one of the country's prime agricultural regions noted for the production of livestock, fruits and vegetables, cereals and tea.

More than 45% of the R2-billion annual turnover of the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market comes from agricultrual industry within Limpopo. The province produces about 75% of South Africa's mangoes, 65% of its papayas, 36% of its tea, 25% of its citrus, bananas, and litchis, 60% of its avocados, 60% of its tomatoes, 285 000 tons of potatoes, 70% of its mangoes and 35% of its oranges.

One of the major players is ZZ2 (Pty) Ltd, which is the largest privately owned producer of tomatoes in the world and supplies 40% of South Africa’s tomatoes.
[... and their farms are slap bang in the middle of the Limpopo Valley ... and WILL be threatened by CoAL mining in this region].


Escom wants to put in 400KV lines between the Soutpansberg and Blouberg Mountains. Called the Barutse line it will stretch from Potgietersrus to Bokmakierie. We are fighting it. The vulture breeding colonies on Blouberg (868 pairs and Soutpansberg 173 pairs) will be affected by this. They say it is to enhance exiting usage. Who are they kidding, this is for the mines! We are not as stupid as you think we are Escom and Coal of Africa!!