South Africa: Killing the Holy Ghost - Limpopo's Musina-Makhado Sez - a Not-So-Go Zone?

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The draft environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on the controversial proposed Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone was released on 1 September, and public participation meetings started in Limpopo and Tshwane in the week of 14 September 2020. Input from community members and other interested parties saw powerful questions and concerns being added to the sensible and potentially prohibitive 'ifs' and 'buts' raised by the report's expert authors.

Also read Kevin Bloom's two-part series on the SEZ: Part 1, Killing the Holy Ghost: Inside the R145bn plan that would destroy the Limpopo River, is here and Part 2, How a R10.7bn "zero waste" megaproject was buried by Limpopo's Chinese deal is here.

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