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ReportRef ReportTitle ReportType ReportDate Authors AuthoringBody CommissioningCompany Post datesort ascending
Balgray PIA PALAEONTOLOGICAL PHASE 1 IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROPOSED RE-COMMISSION OF THE OLD BALGRAY COLLIERY NEAR DUNDEE, KWAZULU NATAL Palaeontological Permit Report 31/10/2019 Elize Butler PGS Heritage (Pty) Ltd 08/09/2020 - 09:13
Balgray HIA Balgray Heritage Impact Assessment HIA Phase 1 31/08/2019 Polke Birkholtz PGS Heritage (Pty) Ltd 08/09/2020 - 08:23
Desktop Heritage Impact Assessment Report Prospecting activities: Xhariep Plant and Mining (Pty) Ltd. Farm 703 - Portions 18, 19, 115 and the Remaining Extent of Portion 27. Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports 31/08/2020 Stephan Gaigher G&A Heritage Management Consultants 07/09/2020 - 12:17
Palaeontological Desktop Study Mining application by Xhariep Plant & Mining (Pty) Ltd on farms north-west of the town of Hotazel in the Northern Cape PIA Desktop 22/08/2020 JF Durand 07/09/2020 - 12:14
Desktop Heritage Impact Assessment Report Prospecting activities: Xhariep Plant and Mining (Pty) Ltd. Farm 703 - Portions 18, 19, 115 and the Remaining Extent of Portion 27. August 2020 Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports 31/08/2020 Stephan Gaigher G&A Heritage Management Consultants 07/09/2020 - 12:12
Phase 1 Heritage Assessment for the Sasol ShondoniMiddelbult Areas A PHASE I HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT STUDY FOR THE SHONDONI AND MIDDELBULT MINING AREAS NEAR SECUNDA IN THE MPUMALANGA PROVINCE HIA Phase 1 31/07/2020 Dr Julius CC Pistorius JMA Consulting (Pty) Ltd 07/09/2020 - 10:00
Heritage Report For Popo Molefe Heritage Report : Popo Molefe HIA Phase 1 25/08/2020 A Stone Bobo Productions Maropeng 'a Afrika 04/09/2020 - 16:02
Archaeological Monitoring Report for the destruction of Site PLA1677/S.35-006, Platreef Mine, Mokopane, Limpopo Province Archaeological Monitoring Report for the destruction of Site PLA1677/S.35-006, Platreef Mine, Mokopane, Limpopo Province Archaeological Monitoring 28/08/2020 Jaco van der Walt Heritage Contracts and Archaeological Consulting Ivanplats (Pty) Ltd 04/09/2020 - 12:17
PROPOSED FILLING STATION DEVELOPMENT ON ERVEN 296 & 298-301, REMBRANDT PARK EXTENSION 5 A PHASE 1 HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT & REPORT FOR A PROPOSED FILLING STATION DEVELOPMENT ON ERVEN 296 & 298-301, REMBRANDT PARK EXTENSION 5 IN EDENVALE, GAUTENG - APAC020/64 HIA Phase 1 31/08/2020 Anton Pelser APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING Nali Sustainability Solutions (Pty) Ltd 04/09/2020 - 11:49
PROPOSED MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT ON PORTIONS OF KNOPJESLAAGTE 385JR REPORT ON A PHASE 1 HERITAGE ASSESSMENT FOR PROPOSED MIXED USED DEVELOPMENT ON PORTIONS OF THE ORIGINAL FARM KNOPJES (KNOPPIES) LAAGTE 385JR NORTH-EAST OF DIEPSLOOT, TIMSRAND AH, GAUTENG - APAC018/67 HIA Phase 1 03/09/2018 Anton Pelser APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING Nali Sustainability Solutions (Pty) Ltd 04/09/2020 - 11:29
Olifantshoek 132kV Powe Line Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 03/09/2020 - 13:49
SAHRIS CaseID 14758-Postponement of Date of Submission of Requested Information to 5 March 2021 SAHRIS CaseID 14758-Postponement of Date of Submission of Requested Information to 5 March 2021 02/09/2020 Karen Van Ryneveld 02/09/2020 - 21:18
Geelstert 2 Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 02/09/2020 - 15:01
Geelstert 1 Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 02/09/2020 - 14:56
Geelstert Grid Connection Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 02/09/2020 - 14:53
Mahoko Recovery and Refining (Pty) Ltd- FS 10057 MR Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Environmental Management Programme Report for the application of a Mining Right situated on portion 6 of the farm Saaiplaas 690. Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports 02/09/2020 02/09/2020 - 11:14
Malelane Asphalt Plant PIA Exemption Letter Request for Exemption of any Palaeontological Impact Assessment for the upgraded Asphalt Plant about 5km west of Malelane, Farm Strathmore, Mpumalanga Province Palaeontological Specialist Reports 12/07/2020 Marion Bamford Prof Marion Bamford At-Road Construction (Pty) Ltd 01/09/2020 - 10:11
Malelane Asphalt Plant HIA Exemption Letter The rectification of the unlawful commencement of a listed activity: the establishment of an Asphalt Plant on portion 57 of the farm Strathmore 214, Nelspruit District, Mpumalanga. HIA Letter of Exemption 26/08/2020 Jaco van der Walt Heritage Contracts and Archaeological Consulting At-Road Construction (Pty) Ltd 01/09/2020 - 10:04
HIA HIA Panfontein Heritage Study 31/05/2017 Nkosinathi Tomose Department of Mineral Resources NGT ESHS Solutions 01/09/2020 - 09:46
Heritage Impact Assessment Letter Heritage Statement Len van Schalkwyk eThembeni Cultural Heritage 01/09/2020 - 08:55
Heritage Scoping Report - The proposed eZakheni Stimela D Integrated Housing Development Heritage Scoping Report The proposed eZakheni Stimela D Integrated Housing Development Ezakheni Local Municipality, uThukela DM, KwaZulu-Natal Heritage Scoping 04/05/2020 Len van Schalkwyk eThembeni Cultural Heritage eThembeni Cultural Heritage 01/09/2020 - 08:51
REPORT ON THE SITE VISIT AND ASSESSMENT OF A STONE PACKED FEATURE_SOETWATER WEF (Case No. 218) REPORT ON THE SITE VISIT AND ASSESSMENT OF A STONE PACKED FEATURE IDENTIFIED DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE POWERLINE FOR THE SOETWATER WIND ENERGY FACILITY, NEAR SUTHERLANDS, KAROO HOOGLAND MUNICIPALITY, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE. Site Inspection Report 31/08/2020 Celeste Booth Booth Heritage Consulting 01/09/2020 - 08:20
AIA PROPOSED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT FARM 956 SIMONDIUM AIA PROPOSED TOURISM DEVELOPMENT FARM 956 SIMONDIUM 28/08/2020 Henry Aikman AIKMAN ASSOCIATES HERITAGE MANAGEMENT Babylonstoren (Pty) Ltd 31/08/2020 - 14:31
Palaeontological Monitoring Report Palaeontological Monitoring Report for the Dinosaur Interpretive Centre, Golden Gate Highlands National Park Palaeontological Monitoring 30/10/2018 Jonah Nathaniel Choiniere 31/08/2020 - 14:28
HIA of access roads for Zeerust PV Plant Phase 1 Heritage Impact Assessment of the Proposed Access roads for the Zeerust PV Plant. Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports Anton Pelser APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING RE CAPITAL 2 (Pty) Ltd 31/08/2020 - 12:02
AIA FOR THE PROPOSED DOUBLE CIRCUIT 132KV POWERLINE FOR THE RHODES 1, RHODES 2, EAST 3, EAST 2 AND EAST PV PLANTS TO THE UMTU SUBSTATION NEAR HOTAZEL, JOHN TAOLO GAETSEWE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (AIA) ON VARIOUS PORTIONS OF ON THE FARM RHODES 269, THE REMAINDER AND PORTION 2 OF THE FARM EAST 270, THE FARM KIPLING 271, THE REMAINDER OF THE FARM HOTAZEL 280, THE FARM UMTU 281 AND THE REMAINDER OF THE FARM OLIVE PAN 282 FOR THE PROPOSED DOUBLE CIRCUIT 132KV POWERLINE FOR THE RHODES 1, RHODES 2, EAST 3, EAST 2 AND EAST PV PLANTS TO THE UMTU SUBSTATION NEAR HOTAZEL, JOE MOROLONG LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, JOHN TAOLO GAETSEWE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE AIA Phase 1 15/08/2019 Neels Kruger Exigo Sustainability AGES (PTY) Ltd - Limpopo 31/08/2020 - 09:30
AIA FOR THE BOLUBEDU SOLAR PARK – ESKOM GRID CONNECTION ON THE FARM BOLOBEDU 1024LT, GREATER LETABA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, LIMPOPO PROVINCE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (AIA) OF AREAS DEMARACTED FOR THE BOLUBEDU SOLAR PARK – ESKOM GRID CONNECTION ON THE FARM BOLOBEDU 1024LT, GREATER LETABA LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, MOPANI DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY, LIMPOPO PROVINCE AIA Phase 1 10/12/2019 Neels Kruger Exigo Sustainability AGES (PTY) Ltd - Limpopo 31/08/2020 - 08:15
HIA for Palm Chrome Mining Heritage Impact Assessment for Palm Chrome Mining Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports Anton Pelser APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING Prescali Environmental Consultants (pty) Ltd 30/08/2020 - 18:16
Baviaanspoort sewer PIA_EButler May 2020 Baviaanspoort sewer PIA_EButler May 2020 PIA Desktop 01/05/2020 Elize Butler SAHRA Council Banzai Environmental (Pty) Ltd 28/08/2020 - 12:29
PHASE 1 HIA BAVIAANSPOORT ZWAVELPOORT SEWER LINE APAC02028 PHASE 1 HIA BAVIAANSPOORT ZWAVELPOORT SEWER LINE APAC02028 HIA Phase 1 02/02/2020 Anton Pelser SAHRA Council APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING 28/08/2020 - 12:28
Hartebeesthoek Residential Developement Palaeontological Desktop Study Hartebeesthoek Residential Developement Palaeontological Desktop Study PIA Desktop 07/02/2020 Elize Butler SAHRA Council Banzai Environmental (Pty) Ltd 28/08/2020 - 12:18
Clayville PIA Clayville PIA PIA Desktop 16/03/2020 Elize Butler SAHRA Council Banzai Environmental (Pty) Ltd 28/08/2020 - 12:11
CLAYVILLE TRUCK YARD HIA EXEMPTION LETTER CLAYVILLE TRUCK YARD HIA EXEMPTION LETTER HIA Letter of Exemption 16/03/2020 Anton Pelser SAHRA Council APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING 28/08/2020 - 12:09
Letter of Exemption Pella Bulk Water Pipeline, NC Letter of Recommendation for Exemption of a Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) for the Pella Bulk Water Pipeline Project, Northern Cape HIA Letter of Exemption 11/05/2020 Jaco van der Walt Heritage Contracts and Archaeological Consulting SLR Consulting (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd 28/08/2020 - 10:31
HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED ESTCOURT PRIVATE HOSPITAL PHASE ONE HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED ESTCOURT PRIVATE HOSPITAL ON ERF 3299, INKOSI LANGALIBALELE MUNICIPALITY, KZN. HIA Phase 1 Frans Prins Active Heritage CC EnviroPro 27/08/2020 - 17:46
CLAYVILLE TRUCK YARD HIA EXEMPTION LETTER CLAYVILLE TRUCK YARD HIA EXEMPTION LETTER HIA Letter of Exemption 16/03/2020 Anton Pelser SAHRA Council APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING 27/08/2020 - 16:53
Soltech Hostels- Palaeontological Study PIA Soltech Hostels- Palaeontological Study PIA PIA Desktop 29/02/2020 Elize Butler SAHRA Council Banzai Environmental (Pty) Ltd 27/08/2020 - 16:25
MONUMENT PARK STUDENT HOUSING HIA EXEMPTION LETTER MONUMENT PARK STUDENT HOUSING HIA EXEMPTION LETTER HIA Letter of Exemption 26/02/2020 Anton Pelser SAHRA Council APELSER ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSULTING 27/08/2020 - 16:21
Phase 1 Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment - Eland Mine Consolidation Project Phase 1 Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment: THE ELAND MINE CONSOLIDATION APPLICATION, CONSISTING OF PORTIONS OF THE FARMS ELANDSFONTEIN 440JQ AND DE KROON 444JQ (MAROELABULT) EAST OF BRITS IN THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITY OF MADIBENG, NORTH WEST PROVINCE HIA Phase 1 31/07/2020 J.A. van Schalkwyk JA van Schalkwyk Heritage Consultant JEMS Pty Ltd 27/08/2020 - 13:04
Draft BAR DRAFT BASIC ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF MBECUKA VEHICULAR BRIDGE AND MCADOLO TO THUNDEZA PEDESTRAIN BRIDGE UNDER RAY NKONYENI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY, IN THE UGU DISTRICT (DC21) OF THE PROVINCE OF KWAZULU-NATAL 26/08/2020 Londeka Jilimane Indaloenhle Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd Indaloenhle Environmental Consultants (Pty) Ltd 27/08/2020 - 11:36
Plastic and and Coal Gasification in Waltloo, Pretoria Plastic and Coal Gasification in Waltloo, Pretoria AIA Phase 1 03/12/2019 Matt Lotter EScience Associates (Pty) Ltd 27/08/2020 - 09:35
HIA for Proposed Drilling at Greeffputs 169 Heritage Impact Assessment for proposed drilling site at Greeffputs 169, near Barkley West, Northern Cape HIA Phase 1 27/02/2020 David Morris McGregor Museum De Beers Consolidated Mines (Pty) Ltd 26/08/2020 - 12:10
Upilanga PV2 Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 25/08/2020 - 22:13
Upilanga PV1 Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports Jenna Lavin CTS Heritage Savannah Environmental (Pty) Ltd 25/08/2020 - 22:09
PIA Kookfontein PALAEONTOLOGICAL DESKTOP ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROPOSED KOOKFONTEIN PROSPECTING RIGHT APPLICATION WITHOUT BULK SAMPLING PIA Desktop 06/04/2020 PGS Heritage (Pty) Ltd Environmental Impact Management Services (Pty) Ltd 25/08/2020 - 13:03
HIA Kookfontein HERITAGE IMPACT REPORT, FOR INCLUSION IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR THE PROPOSED KOOKFONTEIN PROSPECTING RIGHT APPLICATION, SEDIBENG DISTRICT MUNICIPALTY, GAUTENG PROVINCE Heritage Impact Assessment Specialist Reports 22/05/2020 PGS Heritage (Pty) Ltd Environmental Impact Management Services (Pty) Ltd 25/08/2020 - 11:18
Heritage Crime: Zindzi Mandela - Sterkfontein Tweet, 13 June 2019, Sterkfontein & the COHWHS, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Heritage Crime: Zindzi Mandela - Sterkfontein Tweet, 13 June 2019, Sterkfontein & the COHWHS, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 24/08/2020 Karen Van Ryneveld 24/08/2020 - 21:46
Heritage Crime: Zindzi Mandela, Sterkfontein Tweet, 13 June 2019, Sterkfontein, COHWHS, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Heritage Crime: Zindzi Mandela, Sterkfontein Tweet, 13 June 2019, Sterkfontein, COHWHS, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 24/08/2020 - 21:40
The Heritage Crime reported on pertains to a tweet by Ms. Mandela, member of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of the incident. The tweet, dated 13 June 2019, reads as follows: “When you came h The Heritage Crime reported on pertains to a tweet by Ms. Mandela, member of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and South African ambassador to Denmark at the time of the incident. The tweet, dated 13 June 2019, reads as follows: “When you came here without land you found the original people making fire. Next you’ll claim you taught us. Just like Chris Barnard learnt the basics of heart surgery from his Black gardener. What you’re good at is fantasy #Sterkfontein”. (With the ‘Black gardener’ referring to Hamilton Naki). It is argued that the tweet evidences Ms. Mandela’s use of heritage for purposes of political gain [See NHRA 1999, Section 5(1)(d): “Heritage resources management must guard against the use of heritage for sectarian purposes or political gain”], and that she did so intently, through the use of #Sterkfontein (coined with the reference to fire) in her initial post (13 June) and the follow up primary hashtag #OurLand in the twitter debate that ensued, thereby linking heritage, in this case the Sterkfontein site, a well-known site, being one of the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Sites (COHWHS), one of ten of South Africa’s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites, directly with the current land debate, centred on the ‘The Stolen Land’ paradigm and Expropriation Without Compensation (EWC). It is further argued that Ms. Mandela’s initial tweet (13 June), as well as certain follow up tweets, represent, in terms of the NHRA 1999, Section 51(5)(b): “…statement(s) or representation(s) knowing it to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true”, with basic information on South Africa’s heritage and history readily available in books, academic journal and commercial papers and articles and importantly, easily accessible on the internet. The initial tweet by Ms. Mandela (13 June), and the ‘Twitter Storm’ that ensued marked the last prominent socio-political social media endeavour by her and with lasting impact, as evidenced by the referral thereto by President Cyril Ramaphosa during an online funerary tribute to her, 17 July 2020. The President stated: “…She was brave enough to articulate her forthright views about the question of land. She did believe that indeed land was a key determinant of how our people would finally get their economic freedom. We draw many lessons from her life. Her love for motherland, South Africa, to fight against Apartheid rulers of our beautiful land. That love that she had to do that was expansive. We cannot even imagine what freedom would be, had people like Zindzi not stood up for the freedom of our people…”. Not at the time of the initial tweet (13 June) or the twitter debate that ensued did the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (COHWHS) Management Authority or the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), on whose behalf the COHWHS Management Authority manages the COHWHS comment on the incident, not on their own accord and in the absence of evidence that such comment was directly requested from another party, not at the request from such a party. The initial tweet by Ms. Mandela (13 June) bears further reference: 1) The ease with which heritage is used for purposes of political gain, be it party political or policy specific in recent years, with legislative repercussions unaddressed or ignored; 2) The heritage status quo of sites used in such cases, in the Heritage Crime reported on here on national (Sterkfontein - National Heritage Site) and international (COHWHS – UNESCO World Heritage Site) level; and 3) The heritage type sites used in such cases, in the Heritage Crime reported on, the Plio-Pleistocene fossil hominin record (and these hominins’ technological achievements) to initiate and further contemporary socio-political debate. In closure, and highlighting the necessity of the reported Heritage Crime being suitably addressed by SAHRA (and other relevant authorities), the NHRA 1999, Section 3(1) states: “For the purposes of this Act, those heritage resources of South Africa which are of cultural significance or other special value for the present community and for future generations must be considered part of the national estate and fall within the sphere of operations of heritage resources authorities”, and further thereto the NHRA 1999, Section 11: “There is hereby established an organization to be known as the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) which shall be a body corporate capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name and which shall be governed by a Council established in terms of Section 14”. RECOMMENDATIONS This Heritage Crime report is submitted posthumously. The Heritage Crime reported on had not been addressed by the relevant authorities (SAHRA, the COHWHS Management Authority and DEFF) at the time of its occurrence. It however remains the mandatory responsibility of the relevant authorities to address it, both on a site-specific and national level, with Sterkfontein being a declared National Heritage Site, and as part of the COHWHS, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the incident needs to be reported to UNESCO. It is recommended that the incident be first addressed by the relevant authorities, prior to reporting to UNESCO. Ms. Mandela passed on 13 July and was laid to rest on 17 July 2020. The Heritage Crime reported on can thus at best be addressed in retrospect by the relevant authorities. In doing so, the following recommendations are made: 1) That the relevant authorities make use of a media-campaign (social / mainstream media, as may be suitable) to reach the relevant audience associated with the incident (participants of the ‘Twitter Storm’) as well as the general South African community at large. 2) The particulars of the incident be relayed in the media-campaign in a transparent, clear and concise manner. 3) That, with cognisance to the fact that the incident can only be addressed in retrospect, emphasis be placed on the particulars of legislative heritage management protocol, as well as the rights and responsibilities of all South Africans towards our heritage. With respect to Ms. Mandela’s recent passing and with sympathy to family, friends and colleagues, it is recommended that a six month period be allowed (prior to, or on 26 February 2021) for the relevant authorities to address the concern / indicate their intent to address the concern in a suitable manner different from the above recommended to ArchaeoMaps. 24/08/2020 Karen Van Ryneveld 24/08/2020 - 21:34
TopFruit NID NID application Farm 1833 Simondium HIA Letter of Exemption 14/08/2020 Jayson Orton ASHA Consulting(Pty) Ltd 24/08/2020 - 14:08

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