“UNDP moves to scrap support for ‘risky’ R165bn Limpopo heavy industry zone” writes Tony Carnie in Daily Maverick

25 Feb

A United Nations internal watchdog unit has advised its biggest development aid agency to scrap an agreement backing the development of a R165-billion heavy industry zone in Limpopo. Citing the risk of significant reputational harm to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the agency’s New York-based Social and Environmental Compliance Unit (SECU) has recommended the immediate cancellation of an agreement signed two years ago to support the controversial Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone (MMSEZ).

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“UNDP moves to scrap support for ‘risky’ R165bn Limpopo heavy industry zone” writes Tony Carnie in Daily Maverick

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.

“UNDP moves to scrap support for ‘risky’ R165bn Limpopo heavy industry zone” writes Tony Carnie in Daily Maverick

UNDP set to withdraw from SA-China MMSEZ Industrial Zone Pact

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.