27 setembro 2011

Postagens na forja

Eis alguns dos temas que, progressivamente, deverão entrar neste diário a partir da meia-noite local:
* Genéricos: Dossier "Savana" (7) (Edição de 16/09/2011); Série Tete em fotografia - Chifunde (45); Estado, pluralismo jurídico e recursos naturais (4); Um texto de Samora Machel (2); Para a história da imprensa escrita em Moçambique (9)
* Séries pessoais: Teoria do conhecimento de Samora Machel (4); Consumidores machos, cervejas pretas fêmeas (12); Sobre a qualidade do ensino em Moçambique (12); Violentos e calmos (6); E se os Moçambicanos fossem Chineses? (15);  Fio de Ariadne das manifestações mundiais (7); Dhlakamismo: Clausewitz à moçambicana (22); Por que brilha o capitalismo? (5); Sobre ritos de iniciação feminina à maturidade em Moçambique (27); Ditos (21); O que é Moçambique, quem são os Moçambicanos? (60); África enquanto produção cognitiva (33)

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Port plan a threat to SA and conservation


September 26 2011 at 05:07pm

Tony Carnie


MOZAMBIQUE is planning to build a major oil and coal harbour just 20km north of the KwaZulu-Natal border, in the heart of an international tourism and wilderness conservation zone.

The R54-billion Ponto Techobanine plan involves digging a deep-water port inside the Maputo Elephant Reserve and neighbouring Ponta do Ouro marine reserve, and running a 1 100km railway line through the centre of a newly proclaimed elephant migration corridor to South Africa.

If it goes ahead, new rail and pipelines would ferry coal, crude oil, liquid fuels and other goods between Botswana and Zimbabwe, and India and China, bypassing South African harbours and the nearby port of Maputo.

Architects of the plan suggest that the new harbour site is better suited to dock large oil tankers and cargo ships than existing ports, because of the steeper profile of the coastline near Ponto Techobanine.

However, critics fear that the plan could scupper the success of the tri-nation Lubombo transfrontier conservation project signed 10 years ago by the governments of South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland.

Although it remains unclear who might fund the project, the Mozambican government has already gazet-ted the boundaries of a 30 000 hectares harbour and industrial zone around Ponto Techobanine.



http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/port-plan-a-threat-to-sa-and-conservation-1.1144970