Bulldozing roads to nowhere on the banks of the Limpopo River

23 Dec

A depressing scene… Site clearance of the indigenous vegetation and road construction proceeds unchecked at the 3,500 Ha MMSEZ North Site at Antonvilla farm on the banks of the Limpopo River

Development of the MMSEZ North Site (Antonvilla) steams ahead pic.twitter.com/LCxEuFvM29
— Musina Makhado SEZ SOC (@MusinaMakhadSEZ) December 14, 2023

Site clearance and road construction proceeding at the so-called North site of the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone

Photographs taken by Living Limpopo during field inspections of the Antonvilla site near Musina

Lauren Liebenberg

Bulldozing roads to nowhere on the banks of the Limpopo River

The Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone is a coal-fueled Chinese-South African industrial mega-project that will drive the strip-mining of the Vhembe for coal - It will devastate the still wild but fragile Vhembe Biosphere Reserve area of the Limpopo Province - The future can still be changed.

The Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone is a coal-fueled Chinese-South African industrial mega-project that will drive the strip-mining of the Vhembe for coal - It will devastate the still wild but fragile Vhembe Biosphere Reserve area of the Limpopo Province - The future can still be changed.

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The Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone is a coal-fueled Chinese-South African industrial mega-project that will drive the strip-mining of the Vhembe for coal - It will devastate the still wild but fragile Vhembe Biosphere Reserve area of the Limpopo Province - The future can still be changed.