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Environmental Management Plan 1 NAME OF APPLICANT: Platinum Group Metals (RSA) (Pty) Ltd. (“PTM”) REFERENCE NUMBER: LP30/5/1/1/2/10805PR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN SUBMITTED IN TERMS OF SECTION 39 AND OF REGULATION 52 OF THE MINERAL AND PETROLEUM RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2002, (ACT NO. 28 OF 2002) (the Act) 2 STANDARD DIRECTIVE Applicants for prospecting rights or mining permits, are herewith, in terms of the provisions of Section 29 (a) and in terms of section 39 (5) of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, directed to submit an Environmental Management Plan strictly in accordance with the subject headings herein, and to compile the content according to all the sub items to the said subject headings referred to in the guideline published on the Departments website, within 60 days of notification by the Regional Manager of the acceptance of such application. This document comprises the standard format provided by the Department in terms of Regulation 52 (2), and the standard environmental management plan which was in use prior to the year 2011, will no longer be accepted. 3 IDENTIFICATION OF THE APPLICATION IN RESPECT OF WHICH THE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN IS SUBMITTED. ITEM COMPANY CONTACT DETAILS Name Platinum Group Metals (RSA) (Pty) Ltd. (“PTM”) Tel no +27 (011) 782 2186 (Ext. 200) Fax no: +27 (011) 782 4338 Cellular no 082 448 8955 E-mail address [email protected] Postal address Postnet Suite No. 81, Private Bag X12, Rooseveltpark, 2129 ITEM CONSULTANT CONTACT DETAILS (If applicable) Name Digby Wells Environmental Tel no +27 (011) 789 9495 Fax no: +27 (011) 789 9498 Cellular no 082 332 1717 E-mail address [email protected] Postal address Private Bag X10046, Randburg, 2125 4 1 REGULATION 52 (2): Description of the environment likely to be affected by the proposed prospecting or mining operation 1.1 The environment on site relative to the environment in the surrounding area. Platinum Group Metals (RSA) (Pty) Ltd. (the Applicant) applied for various Prospecting Rights for five (5) years in terms of Section 16 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act 28 of 2002) (MPRDA). The term ‘Project Area’ used within this report refers to the entire area which includes the following prospecting right applications: LP30/5/1/1/2/10667 PR; LP30/5/1/1/2/10668 PR; LP30/5/1/1/2/10804 PR; LP30/5/1/1/2/10805 PR; LP30/5/1/1/2/10809 PR; and LP30/5/1/1/2/10810 PR. The specialist studies conducted for this Environmental Management Plan (EMP) covered the entire project area as a whole and not only focussing on this specific prospecting application area. The prospecting application area applied for (LP30/5/1/1/2/10805 PR) includes the following farms: BONNE ESPERANCE 356 LR; TOO LATE 359 LR; MONT BLANC 328 LR; NIEUWE JERUSALEM 327 LR; GALLASHIELS 316 LR; SWEETHOME 315 LR; BLACKHILL 317 LR; BOGNAFURAN 318 LR; LEIPSIG 264 LR; AND THE PARK 266 LR. The prospecting area is located on the Northern Limb of the Bushveld Complex (“BC”). The proposed prospecting area is located in the Limpopo Province approximately 60 km north east of Marken and falls within the jurisdiction of the Capricorn District Municipality and the Blouberg Local Municipality (BLM). 5 The total area applied for measures approximately 22209.51 hectares. Refer to Plan 1 (Appendix A) indicating the locality of the proposed project area as well as the specific prospecting application area. The Regulation 2(2) Plan indicating the prospecting application area is also attached in Appendix A to this document. Current prospecting activities are taking place to the south of the application area on the farm, KETTING 368 LR. 6 1.1.1 Socio-Economic Baseline Profile A desktop Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Report is attached as Appendix B to this Document. The information presented below was obtained from the SIA. The project area cover a total of 44 farms that form a contiguous area of about 1 155 km2 (Refer to Plan 1, Appendix A). The project area straddles the border of the Blouberg and Mogalakwena Local Municipalities in Limpopo Province. The greater part of the project area falls within the Blouberg municipal area, with only 77 km2 (about 7%) falling in Mogalakwena. 1.1.1.1 Regional Profile Blouberg Local Municipality is one of five local municipalities comprising the Capricorn District Municipality – the other four being Aganang, Modemole, Lepelle Nkumpi and Polokwane Local Municipalities. The local municipality covers a total of 9 248 km², and its largest population centre is the town of Alldays, situated some 45 km to the north of the project area. Mogalakwena Local Municipality, with an area of 6 166 km², falls within the Waterberg District Municipality. This magisterial district comprises six local municipalities: Mogalakwena, Lephalale, Modimolle, Thabazimbi, Bela-Bela and Mookgopong. Its main population centre is the town of Mokopane (formerly Potgietersrus), situated about 100 km to the south of the project area. Demographics Key demographic and social indicators relating to the Blouberg and Mogalakwena local municipal areas are presented in Table 1 and Figure 1 to Figure 8 below. As can be seen from these statistics (which are based on 2011 Census results1), the population of Mogalakwena is nearly twice that of Blouberg, even though it has a smaller surface area. This reflects the more rural character of Blouberg, with the relative absence of large towns and burgeoning economic activity. The population of Blouberg is also slowly shrinking (due in part to rural-urban migration and the effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic), while that of Mogalakwena shows a slight increase. The conjecture that the municipality is characterised by significant rural-urban migration of its population is supported by the fact that women outnumber men (Figure 4) and that more than half of households are headed by females (Figure 7). These characteristics are also shared by the Mogalakwena population. The two municipal areas share a number of other socio-economic characteristics – e.g. a predominantly young population (with about one-third of the population being under 15 years of age; see Figure 3), high unemployment (Figure 6), a relative scarcity of informal dwellings (Figure 7, central column) and good access to electricity (Figure 8, last column). However, there are other indications that Blouberg is less developed and affluent than Mogalakwena. For instance, education levels in Blouberg are significantly lower than in Mogalakwena, with more than one-quarter of persons over twenty years of age having had no schooling (Figure 5). In addition, access to water and sanitation services in Blouberg is significantly lower than in Mogalakwena (Figure 8). The 1 Statistics South Africa (2012). 7 municipality also suffers from significant backlogs in other services, such as roads, education, health and recreational facilities (Blouberg Local Municipality, IDP, 2011- 2016). Table 1: Key population statistics Indicator Blouberg LM Mogalakwena LM Population (2011) 162 629 307 682 No. households (2011) 41 192 79 395 Average Household Size 3.9 3.9 Figure 1: Population density Figure 2: Population growth rate per annum (2011) 8 Figure 3: Age distribution Figure 4: Sex ratio 9 Figure 5: Education (over 20 year-olds) Figure 6: Unemployment rates 10 Figure 7: Household dynamics Figure 8: Access to services Economy As suggested by the statistics presented above, the Blouberg municipal area, as a predominantly rural municipality, encounters economic challenges in terms of high unemployment levels, low education levels, skills mismatch, and insufficient infrastructure to support job creation initiatives. Its relative lack of development is partially due to the fact that it is a mountainous area, with large parts of the municipal area being unsuited for development. 11 The main economic sectors in the local municipal area are: Agriculture. The area consists of two economies in the farming sector – the established and commercial (mostly White) farming community, and the less established, subsistence-orientated traditional African farming community. The Strategy identifies even game farming as one of the pillars of the agricultural sector especially the one practiced in areas around Alldays and the surrounding farms. The subsectors of the agricultural sector in the Blouberg area are:2 o Livestock and game farming. Livestock farming is practiced by participants in both the commercial and subsistence levels of the economy, although at varying degrees of intensity. Game farming is mainly practised in the northern and south-western parts of the municipality, including the Alldays, Vivo, Tolwe, Maastroom and Baltimore areas. Private game farms are prevalent in such areas and this has attracted massive tourist influx, especially during the winter hunting season. o Crop and vegetable farming. The area is well known for the production of tomato and potato products that are mainly sold to national and international markets. The fruit of the Marula tree, which is found in abundance in the area, is used to make traditional Morula beer and the world-famous Amarula Cream Liquor.3 Tourism. As mentioned above, the prevalence of game farms has stimulated the area’s tourism industry by attracting large numbers of hunters. The area’s attractiveness as a tourist destination is also partly due to its rich cultural and heritage background, which includes rock art paintings at the Makgabeng Mountains, the Malebogo\Boer battlefields that have been declared a Provincial Heritage Site, the footprints of the missionaries at areas such as Leipzig and Milbank, and the presence of two nature reserves (Malebogo and Blouberg). The area’s potential as a tourism development node is further reinforced by its geographical location between the Waterberg wetlands and the Dongola Trans- frontier Park (which encompasses the Mapungubwe World Heritage Site). Mining. In addition to the proposed project, a number of mineral deposits have been identified in the local municipal area.
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