WATER DOUBTS
Bordering Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, Limpopo’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and reputation for being the country’s winter breadbasket have earned it the title of Africa’s Eden.
It is also considered a hotspot for climate change, with rising temperatures and increased rainfall variability in the region already leading to more droughts and floods, according to University of the Witwatersrand researcher Victor Munnik.
The N1 highway that runs along the proposed EMSEZ site is flanked by game lodges and villages shrouded in dense, green indigenous trees.
Lodge owner Johan Fourie, deputy chair of the Save Our Limpopo Valley Environment group, said its members – citizens based in South Africa and abroad – were not…