Phosphate mine proposal in national park sparks outrage – The Mail & Guardian

Phosphate mine proposal in national park sparks outrage – The Mail & Guardian

South African National Parks (SANParks) has shot down an “audacious” application by a phosphate mining company to mine inside the boundaries of the ecologically-sensitive West Coast National Park. Last September Kropz Elandsfontein, an emerging African phosphate producer majority-owned by billionaire business person Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital, wrote to SANParks to open negotiations for a proposed “land swop” for its Elandsfontein …