Living Limpopo

Keeping Limpopo's coal in the ground

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You can read the genesis of this scandal here - "Bulldozing Roads to Nowhere on the Banks of the Limpopo River" - https://t.co/AVgtXL9bRx

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https://t.co/WTzcJk6fpu A shocking investigative report by Limpopo Mirror on the brazen looting happening at the MMSEZ tenderfest in Limpopo.

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▶️ Living Limpopo interview: Power Plant | Economic catastrophe and Environmental costs: Lauren Liebenberg
https://t.co/90s5qWcson
https://t.co/UYmkgeRHTC▶️MMSEZ SOC right of reply: Power Plant | Economic upside and Environmental benefits: Gundo Maswime

https://t.co/YqsUs5NNgL

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Last night SABC News aired the MMSEZ debate: big promises on one side, and Living Limpopo’s warning against a coal-fed sacrifice zone on the other.
So, your verdict: industrial megatropolis built on coal and steel — or industrial-scale disaster hiding behind a smooth sales pitch?

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This is environmental racism in practice.
Limpopo is not a sacrifice zone.
#EnvironmentalJustice #ClimateJustice #LivingLimpopo

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📅 30 Apr 2026 — MC Mining announces Makhado Colliery hot commissioning despite an unresolved appeal and the collapse of its water plan.

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The harms are already here: contaminated water, carcinogenic air risks, pollution dumping framed as a project “benefit”, meagre jobs, and ongoing violations of environmental and constitutional law.

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📅 22 Apr 2026 — Chinese coal producer Kinetic Development Group completes a US$90m takeover of MC Mining. One Chinese-controlled entity now holds strip-mining rights over 106,581 ha and ±8.3 billion tons of coal feeding the MMSEZ.

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🚨 The race to ecocide in Limpopo. #RightsOfNatureDenied #MMSEZ

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📅 22 Mar 2026 — International Rights of Nature Tribunal condemns MMSEZ as a sacrifice zone and warns of environmental racism.
📅 27 Mar — Minister gazettes 3m ha MMSEZ SDF land use plan.

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LIMPOPO IS NOT A CHEAP COAL PIT AND WASTE DUMP FOR CHINA
In SOPA 2025 Premier Ramathuba promised the tribunal on land-use rights for the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone would sit “tomorrow.”
A year later, SOPA 2026 — still no hearing, same empty promise.
Hold a fair hearing.

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So it’s dirty coal power for the MMSEZ smelters, after all? Imagine our shock!

https://t.co/25zGa6ZDJR

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"SPOTLIGHT ON THE MMSEZ" featuring insights from Living Limpopo and EarthLife South Africa - Interview with Makoma Lekalakala and Lauren Liebenberg; Facilitated by Nicole Irving, Vice Chairperson, ELA South Africa, Attorney, Norton Rose Fulbright
https://t.co/JL04Z5FoLA

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Thanks to ALL RISE - Attorneys for Climate and Environmental Justice we are honoured to be featured at this year's Environmental Law Association Annual Conference, 8-10 Oct, hosted by UNIVEN in Limpopo, under the theme of The Environment and Justifiable Limits on Development:

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MC Mining that hasn’t turned a profit in 10 years is now turning our land and water into massive losses on South Africa’s Natural Capital Accounts: it is illegally laying waste to the Vhembe too - while our government refuses to hold them to account.

https://t.co/Zs6xfmV7jz

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Huge credit to Tony Carnie and Daily Maverick for blowing the lid off the MMSEZ ferrochrome smelter scam, and exposing the fatal flaws in the environmental approvals process.
https://t.co/knxRHvgKI0