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We must put pressure on South African and Australian governments to ensure that they don't let the mine become a reality. Sign the petition.

Send the petition to a friend and motivate them to join the cause to prevent any further mining licences being granted.

You can donate by texting MINE to 31913 to donate R10 or by donation online.
The full value of your donation via VODACOM and MTN
and most of the value of your donation via CELLC, will go directly to EWT T&C Apply.

Below are the details of the bank account into which you can make a deposit to assist in the legal battle to halt further mining licences being granted in the area, or in other areas where environmental degradation would adversely affect the environment.

Account name: Endangered Wildlife Trust
Bank: First National Bank
Branch name: Rosebank
Branch code: 25 33 05
Account number: 5037 1564219
Swift: FIRNZAJJ03T
Reference: Save Mapungubwe

Click here to join the Facebook cause – and invite your Facebook friends to do the same!

Simply drop a line directly to one of the following people, and tell them what you think of an Australian company (or any company!) mining near a World Heritage Site in South Africa.

The South African Presidency
president@po.gov.za

The Limpopo Department of Mineral Resources
Miss Constance Kobe, Limpopo Regional Manager for Department of Mineral Resources
motlatso.kobe@dme.gov.za

National Department of Mineral Resources
Minister Susan Shabangu
kholofelo.madisha@dme.gov.za

Minister's Personal Assistant
Ntombi Mthembu
mthembun@dwaf.gov.za

The Prime Minister of Australia
To contact Prime Minister Julia Gillard, visit www.pm.gov.au/PM_Connect/Email_your_PM

The Minister of Mineral Resources
Jeremy Michaels
jeremy.michaels@dmr.gov.za

While a petition is helpful, mining activity has already begun in Mapungubwe and stronger action seems necessary. So we kindly ask that you take the time to write an email or a letter to one of the government contacts listed on the site, or alternatively consider making a donation to help the legal battle. Thank you!

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#6804:

2:39 pm, November 14, Ezekiel Mathephe, South Africa

#6803:

2:39 pm, November 14, Grant Thompson, USA

#6802:

2:39 pm, November 14, Anton Pleva, Germany
Think different!

#6801:

2:39 pm, November 14, Andrew Thurlow, RSA
Its always the Australian mining companies! Their disregard for African resources is almost as bad as that of the chinese.

#6800:

2:39 pm, November 14, Kate Love-Kanow, USA

#6799:

2:39 pm, November 14, Shane Alcock, South Africa

#6798:

2:39 pm, November 14, Marian Beggs,

#6797:

2:39 pm, November 14, David Johnson, South Africa

#6796:

2:39 pm, November 14, Paul Runkel, SA

#6795:

2:39 pm, November 14, Melanie Posthumus, South Africa

#6794:

2:39 pm, November 14, Hanna Naude, RSA
STOP THE COAL MINING!

#6793:

11:26 am, October 26, Walter Petersen, South Africa
Mapungubwe is the jewel of our country

#6792:

11:26 am, October 26, south africa

#6791:

11:26 am, October 26, Filip Hansen, Sweden

#6790:

11:26 am, October 26, Conrad Gouws, Ireland
This is something we should preserve for our children, and their children. It's part of the history of they country we love

#6789:

11:26 am, October 26, Simone Hansen, South Africa

#6788:

11:26 am, October 26, Alison Westwood, South Africa

#6787:

11:26 am, October 26, Michelle Duncan, South Africa

#6786:

11:26 am, October 26, Danny Fernandes, South Africa

#6785:

11:26 am, October 26, South africa

#6784:

11:26 am, October 26, South Africa

#6783:

11:26 am, October 26, Kim Konings, South Africa
"Only when the last tree has been cut down;
Only when the last river has been poisoned;
Only when the last fish has been caught;
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten"

Cree Indian Prophecy

#6782:

11:26 am, October 26, Azel Crous, South Africa

#6781:

11:26 am, October 26, Tshifhiwa Matodzi, South Africa
Preservation over profiteering

#6780:

11:26 am, October 26, RSA

#6779:

11:26 am, October 26, Caroline Voget, South Africa
Please ensure that this remains a pristine World Heritage Site which is ultimately more important for the well being of out land than some short-term profit made from the destructive mining of fossil fuels.

#6778:

11:26 am, October 26, Val Hearder,
long term destruction of water table and environment - for short term greed.

#6777:

11:26 am, October 26, Annemarie Gebhardt, South Africa

#6776:

11:26 am, October 26, Howard Duncan, Australia

#6775:

11:26 am, October 26, Tharlikha Krupandan, South Africa
Mapungubwe is an important heritage site that must be saved for further research and for the generations to come to be able to appreciate.

#6774:

11:26 am, October 26, Wolfgang Preiser, South Africa
What madness - if left undisturbed and is well looked after, Mapungubwe will remain for thousands of years. The coal will be gone in a few decades, contributing further to already critical global warming, and leave behind huge scars that will never heal!

#6773:

11:26 am, October 26, Justin Boshoff, SA
I was fortunate to have the opportunity of living and working in this area for some years. It was one of a few Wilderness areas left in our country. Why DONT you stop and think what you're doing! What is man without this natural heritage. Tourists come to our country in order to escape these very same disasters which have 'destroyed' their own countries. Will we ever learn from our mistakes?

#6771:

11:26 am, October 26, KAMOGELO MOKHASIPE, SOUTH AFRICA
I AM A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY IF PRETORIA AND WE STUDYING ABOUT THE HERITAGE OF MAPUNGUBWE AND IT IS SAD THAT OUR GOVERNMENT IS CONSIDERING MINING TO TAKE PLACE THER AS THEY ARE ROBBING THE COMMUNITY OFTHEIR HERITAGE AND CULTURE ALSO THE EFFECT THAT THE MINE WILL HAVE ON THE CONSERVATION OF THE EARTH. I DO NOT AGREE WITH THE MINING PROJECT.

#6770:

11:26 am, October 26, Hugh Pope, Britain

#6769:

11:26 am, October 26, Rozhe Bloemendal, South Africa

#6768:

11:26 am, October 26, giovannini speranza, Amburgo
my name is hope

#6767:

11:26 am, October 26, Anah Moorad, South Africa
Let us live harmoniously with our earth, instead of abusing and raping her and so many of her beautiful creature.

#6766:

11:26 am, October 26, Andrea Fleming, United States of America

#6765:

11:26 am, October 26, Portugal

#6764:

11:26 am, October 26, ingrid beyleveld, vanuatu
I grew up near this amazing area...

#6763:

11:26 am, October 26, Sérgio Mendes, Portugal

#6762:

11:26 am, October 26, Pedro Coimbra, Portugal

#6761:

11:26 am, October 26, Diana Pereira, Portugal

#6760:

12:04 pm, September 26, austria

#6759:

12:04 pm, September 26, Sarah Taylor, South Africa

#6758:

12:04 pm, September 26, Vanessa Bristow, Zimbabwe
Yesterday evening I went to a favourite lookout point on Nottingham Estates (the property DIRECTLY opposite the Vele Mine on the on the Zimbabwe side of the Limpopo River only 750m away from the mining site) to watch 200 elephant and 100 eland feast on the orange crush left for them after the citrus juicing process. The sandstone ridge on which we sit looking down at the plethora of animals has a 180 degree view of the beautiful Limpopo Valley landscape facing south. The many sheer-sided sandstone massifs and ravines criss-crossed with ancient elephant paths that dot the valley below are gorgeous and glow gold and red in the setting sun. As sunlight fades, our eyes adjust to the darkening night, only to be assaulted by the newly-switched-on-glare of the industrial lights piercing the still darkness from the coal washing plant at the Vele Mine just 7.5km away . Vele CEO John Wallington claims that the mine is not visible from Mapungubwe. What he is not telling you is that the mine is clearly visible from the Zimbabwe component of the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area of which Nottingham,Sentinel Ranch and Border Ridge Farm are part. When the mine started its operations in 2009, more than one resident at Nottingham complained it was like having trucks drive through your bedroom at night. The noises and tremors from blasting were enough to scare the birds from the waterhole where I regularly take visitors to watch game coming to drink approximately15km away from (Phase One of) the mine...and Phase 2, God forbid, will be a lot closer. Will Vele change the sense of place that is Mapungubwe? DAMN RIGHT IT WILL. Please help stop it. Wallington can try to sanitise the damage that he and his mine are going to do to our pristine area, but only a fool would believe him. ONCE THE LIMPOPO VALLEY IS INDUSTRIALISED IT WILL BE RUINED FOREVER.

#6757:

12:04 pm, September 26, leasa mensing, south africa

#6756:

12:04 pm, September 26, Portugal
Actions have consequences. Humans cannot fix everything.
Do not destroy the earth. If you do, where will you live?!
THINK.

#6755:

12:04 pm, September 26, Andrew D'Aubrey, South Africa
It is a shame the we are putting our natural resources under threat to promote coal mining, a un-sustainable activity which creates so much pollution. Should we not be thinking more long term instead of looking at the short term in order to make a quick buck?

#6754:

12:04 pm, September 26,

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