IN response to Realist’s letter in the Zululand Observer of 15 November titled ‘Mtunzini mining objection – Conservancy shoots itself in the foot’.
I do believe that the number of ‘Mtunzini residents who have reached saturation point with the alleged continuous negative publicity’, is probably more like a handful, if that.
As for those alleged pamphlets of doom, I also believe that we still have a morsel of freedom of speech, of which the Conservancy is taking advantage, and by which you too may exercise your rights – by not reading!
I personally also believe that if it were not for conservancies and such bodies, companies like Tronox would literally get away with murder, or whatever the equivalent of doing harm to land, is referred to.
I have never met Barbara, but am always eager to read about the Conservancy’s next exploits to put a spanner in the Tronox works.
I chuckle and mutter ‘good on you Barbara’.
You have got to be slightly delusional, when you refer to the pamphlets and publicity as negative; it is probably the only interesting non-negative article to read about in the newspaper, as opposed to reading about the rapes, vehicle accidents and escaped prisoners.
The benefits to the village and the businesses in and around the village will be marginal, in comparison to the impairment of the beautiful landscape and animal life surrounding Mtunzini.
Granted Tronox have plans in place to rehabilitate the area – afterwards. Good for them – but guess what, we still have many, many years of the ‘before’, which will include the reality of many, many trucks on the roads, rise in household burglaries, squatters when workers bring their families to live nearer to them, taxis speeding down the main and only road into the village, noise pollution, dust pollution, to name but a very few…. get those rose tinted glasses off!
Next time you go past Hillendale, take a good look because it ain’t looking too pretty to me!
Depends how you perceive life, Realist, you obviously see it through a different glass to the one I look through.
You are of course, most welcome and entitled to vent your opinions in the local newspaper, however please do not be so presumptuous as to lump the entire Mtunzini population in your statement.
Speak for yourself because I for one do not want to be embraced and included in that statement.
No offence just being a realist.
XAVIER
