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MMSD Southern Africa Regional
Group
MMSD Southern Africa's activities were carried out
by the University of the Witwatersrand, School of Mining Engineering
in Johannesburg, South Africa [http://www.mining.wits.ac.za]
and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Stellenbosch,
South Africa [http://www.csir.co.za].
The objective of MMSD Southern Africa was to determine
how the mining and minerals sector can best contribute to the region's
transition to sustainable development.
For more information, contact the MMSD Southern Africa
regional coordinator:
Marie Hoadley [hoadley@egoli.min.wits.ac.za].
Structure
MMSD Southern Africa covered the countries of the
Southern African Development Community (SADC): Angola, Botswana,
Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
A Regional Working Group, which coordinated the Project's
daily activities, and a Regional Steering Committee, which overviewed
the Work Group's progress, were responsible for MMSD Southern Africa's
work progress.
The regional steering committee comprised representatives
of stakeholder groups from across the region. The role of this committee
was to:
- provide general advice and support to the Work Group;
- peer review and approve the outputs of the Work Group; and
- engage with stakeholders in their constituencies.
To further ensure that the process was truly regional,
and that the research results reflected views from the different
southern African countries, emphasis was placed on appointing researchers
from across the whole region.
Research
The MMSD Southern Africa project comprised two components:
research and stakeholder consultation. These components were interactive
and complementary – the regional issues to be researched were
identified by the stakeholders, and the resulting research reports,
in turn, reflected the priorities of the stakeholders. Recommendations
for implementation were developed in collaboration with stakeholders.
Between September and November 2000 MMSD Southern
Africa undertook extensive stakeholder outreach and consultation
culminating in a multistakeholder meeting in Johannesburg, where
five key areas for research were identified. A sixth research report
- a baseline study of the industry - was commissioned and funded
directly by the global MMSD project.
The five research topics identified by stakeholders
were:
1.
Small-scale Mining and sustainable development in southern Africa;
2.
HIV/AIDS, the mining and minerals sector and sustainable development
in southern Africa;
3.
Social issues within the mining and minerals sector in southern
Africa;
4.
Mining, minerals, the biophysical environment and the transition
to sustainable development in southern Africa; and
5.
Mining, minerals, economic development and the transition to sustainable
development in southern Africa.
A baseline survey of the mining and minerals
sector was also conducted.
At a second multistakeholder meeting, held in Johannesburg
on 18-19 September 2001, stakeholders reviewed the results of the
research component. Recommendations from the research reports were
prioritised for implementation by stakeholders at this meeting.
Stakeholder Engagement
Stakeholder engagement and consultation informed all
the activities of the MMSD Southern Africa initiative. Southern
Africa is a vast region, and engaging satisfactorily with all stakeholders
in a short space of time proved extremely challenging. However a
continuous flow of information was one of the success factors of
the stakeholder engagement process.
MMSD Southern Africa conducted numerous workshops
and focus group meetings in a number of countries in the region.
The issues raised at these meetings correlated closely with the
issues identified in the research reports.
At the various meetings, certain over-arching issues
were prioritised by stakeholders. These issues have to be addressed
if progress towards sustainable development is to be achieved and
they appear as crosscutting issues in the recommendations. The critical
issues are:
- poverty alleviation;
- capacity building and skills training;
- gender equity; and
- unemployment and governance.
Documents
The documents are organised according to the following categories:
•Research Topic 1 - Small-Scale
Mining
•Research Topic 2 - HIV/AIDS
•Research Topic 3 - Social issues
•Research Topic 4 - Biophysical Environment
•Research Topic 5 - Economic development
•Research Topic 6 - Baseline Survey
•Reviewers Reports
•General
•Newsletters
•Events
•Multi-Stakeholder Workshop
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3 - Social issues within the mining and minerals sector in southern
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Mining
and Society: Overview (Word) - Paul Kapelus, African
Institute of Corporate Citizenship, August 2001.
Gender
and Mining: Community (Word) - Aleta Netsai Musvoto,
Scientific and Industrial Research Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe
for: African Institute of Corporate Citizenship, August
2001.
Recommendations
– Gender and Community Summary Table (Word)
Gender
and Mining: Workplace (Word) - Sarita Ranchod, African
Institute of Corporate Citizenship, August 2001.
Recommendations
– Gender and the Workplace Summary Table (Word)
Local
Development (Word) - Sam Choshi, African Institute of
Corporate Citizenship, July 2001.
Recommendations
– Local Development Summary Table (Word)
Privatisation
and Social Management (Word) - John Kangwa, African
Institute of Corporate Citizenship, July 2001.
Recommendations
– Privatisation Summary Table (Word)
Involuntary
Resettlement (Word) - Dan Sonnenberg (lims) & Frauke
Münster, African Institute of Corporate Citizenship,
August 2001.
Recommendations
– Resettlement Summary Table (Word)
Conclusions
and Recommendations from Research Topics - Mining and Society
(Word)
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| Research Topic
4 - Mining, minerals, the biophysical environment and the transition
to sustainable development in southern Africa |
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An Overview of the Impact
of Mining and Mineral Processing Operations on Water Resources
and Water Quality in the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants Catchments
in Southern Africa - Ashton, P.J., D. Love, H. Mahachi,
P.H.G.M. Dirks, 2001.
Cover
(Word)
Citation
Page (Word)
Contents
and Executive Summary (Word)
Section
1 - Introduction and Background Information (Word)
Figure
1.1: Sketch map of southern Africa, showing the
Southern African Development Community (SADC) and the
the Zambezi, Limpopo and Olifants basins. (Word)
Tables
1.1-1.3: Chemical and physical impacts of different
types of mining and mineral processing operations.
(Word)
Section
2 - Impacts of Mining and Mineral Processing Operations
on the Biophysical Environment (Word)
Section
3 - The Zambezi Basin (Word)
Figure
3.1: Sketch map showing the distribution of mean
annual rainfall over the Zambezi basin, plus major rivers
and lakes. (Word)
Figures
3.2-3.6: Maps of Zimbabwe showing: hydrological
zones, major rivers and positions of Zambezi and Limpopo
sub-catchments; water quality sampling sites operated
by ZINWA; distribution of different land use types; distribution
and extent of different geological units. (Word)
Figure
3.4: Sketch map of the Zambezi basin, showing major
rivers, lakes and sub-catchments, plus the locations and
types of important mining operations. (Word)
Figures
3.7-3.14: Maps of Zimbabwe showing the locations
of: precious metal mines; ferrous metals and ferralloy
metals; non-ferrous metal mines; industrial minerals;
gemstone mines; minor metals and related non-metals; metals
smelters, furnaces and coking plants; and river reaches
that are subjected to alluvial gold mining and small-scale
chrome mining. (Word)
Figure
3.15:
Landsat image taken in October 1998 of a portion of the
Zambian Copperbelt (Word)
Figure
3.15 (Wordperfect WPG file)
Table
3.41: Summary of actual and anticipated water resource
and water quality problems associated with mining operations
and mineral processing activities in the Zambezi basin
(Word)
Section
4 - The Limpopo Basin (Word)
Figure
4.1: Map of the distribution of mean annual rainfall
over the two basins, as well as the positions of the major
tributaries within each basin (Word)
Figure
4.2: Map of major tributaries with their sub-catchments,
plus the locations and types of all mining operations
located within these basins (Word)
Figure
4.3: Map of the South African sectors of the Limpopo
and Olifants basins, showing locations and types of all
mining operations in each sub-catchment (Word)
Table
4.27: Summary of actual and anticipated water resource
and water quality problems associated with mining operations
and mineral processing activities in the Limpopo basin
(Word)
Section
5 - The Olifants Catchment (Word)
Table
5.12: Summary of actual and anticipated water resource
and water quality problems associated with mining operations
and mineral processing activities in the Olifants basin
(Word)
Section
6 - Conclusions and Section 7 - Recommendations (Word)
Table
7.1: Summary of recommendations for stakeholder
contributions to sustainable development: Biophysical
(Word)
Section
8 - References (Word)
Mining
and Water Resources Presentation (PowerPoint)
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| Events |
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Multi-Stakeholder
Meeting (Word)
16-17 November 2000, Johannesburg, South Africa
Steering
Committee Meeting (Word)
15 February 2001
Sustainable Development Workshop
12 March 2001
Steering
Committee Meeting (Word)
9 April 2001
MMSD Southern Africa Specialist Research
Workshop
18 April 2001
MMSD Southern Africa Focus Group Meeting
in Windhoek, Namibia
22 May 2001
MMSD Southern Africa Focus Group Meeting
in Maputo, Mozambique
12 June 2001
Steering Committee Meeting
22 July 2001
MMSD Southern Africa Focus Group Meeting in Dar-es-Salaam,
Tanzania
30 July 2001
MMSD Southern Africa Focus Group Meeting
in Harare, Zimbabwe
4 September 2001
Multistakeholder Workshop
18-19 September 2001, Johannesburg, South Africa
MMSD Southern Africa Focus Group Meeting
in Gabarone, Botswana
9 November 2001
Steering Committee Meeting
11-12 February 2002
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Disclaimer
All documents remain the sole responsibility of the author(s) and
do not necessarily reflect the views of the MMSD Project, the MMSD
Assurance Group, or the International Institute for Environment
and Development.
Except where stated otherwise, the copyright for these documents
remains jointly with the International Institute for Environment
and Development (IIED) and the World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD).
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