OPINION| UN Development Programme South Africa backs dirty Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone - The SEZ in Limpopo’s Vhembe district will still be fuelled by a coal-fired power plant
The proposed switch to solar and hydrogen, given the size of the zone, seems implausible at best and ludicrous at worst.
Unfortunately, UNDP South Africa has not taken cognisance of the research that has underpinned civil society critique of the MMSEZ, choosing to believe Masoga’s public pronouncements. Instead, what is still in fact in the Environmental Authorisation for the Zone is an extractive minerals complex requiring requisite high delivery energy in the form of a coal plant. For this reason, theA further two examples of premature endorsement on the part of UNDP suffice.
Independent research has shown that the proposed Musina Dam pre-feasibility study is a dubious, at best, back-of-an-envelope proposal with little by way of policy implementation practicality. Yet Odusela states “the long-term solution is the establishment of the Musina Dam at the confluence of Sands River and Limpopo River for domestic use and irrigation.
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