MusinaWater for Limpopo’s coal-steel zone remains unproven, a 22 September government report found.
Villagers who rely on boreholes could lose the supply an industrial customer takes.
Kinetic Development Group, which Chinese interests control, is opening the Makhado coal mine ahead of planned coke ovens and smelters.
“This is an entire coal mining and industrial frontier,” said Lauren Liebenberg of Living Limpopo.
Appeals and judicial reviews of South Africa’s environmental approvals for the zone are under way.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- maps the Musina-Makhado steel plan against a 22 September water report calling the supply unproven, and OECD data on global steel overcapacity
Sources: Daily Maverick