Revisiting The 1942 Development Plan

Aquafarming The St Lucia System

The iMfolozi Flood Plains

 #Religion101

The Umfolozi flood plains were reclaimed and sold to the public in 1928 to fund the British Soldiers coming back from WWI..

But that is irrelevant.. In 1718 Sedimentation build up in the St Lucia basin was identified as a reason why the Royal British Navy did not see St Lucia Estuary fit to develop as a harbour..

You see school Geography teaches us Natural Erosion.. this is where rainfall on the mountain and it slides down into the valley to create fertile farmland.. anyway..

St Lucia couldn't function naturally anymore back in 1718

Since God gave dominion over Nature to man more than 8000 years ago.. about 2000 before the Glacier that covered this area melted.. it is only fitting to continue with 1942 Development plan of turning The St Lucia Basin into the biggest man-made Marine Aquaculture in the history of mankind.

If not .. the system will choke to death.. a natural course that these systems undergo.. and become farmland..

My take on this.. a Marine system is much more important than more crops.. cheaper to develop and much more productive in green protein than any other commercial farming operation..

As a freshwater system, it has a limited life span and very little use..

As a marine system, it populates the Tugela Shelve, the sandbank running from South of Durban to Mapelane Bay just South of St Lucia Estuary.

As a marine system, it is a Nursery to 50% of all the marine species of South Africa.

As a Phytoplankton Production Facility, it keeps the only organism alive that mitigate global warming every 48 hours

We cannot turn our back on managing The St Lucia basin as a Marine System and we don't need the Umfolozi flood plain to do it.

It was already silted up in 1718.

Regards

Petrus Viviers

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PS This massive undertaking can be done through sourcing finance through the sale of beach driving permits.

The Death of an Ecosystem - 10 Aug 2015

St Lucia Estuary

Many moons ago, stuttering, dyslexic Petrus started with his lone campaign. At this time I already lost my children's inheritance twice in the fight for a Managed Marine Functioning System. In this very poor quality video, I tried my little heart out with substandard equipment telling the story of a dying system and a failing World Heritage Site. Today I watch this and think back.. all the criticism, not only because of the poor quality videos, but also the negative publicity it brought to the community. 

No one wanted to visit a dying system, but I was adamant that no publicity was bad publicity. We had to turn this decay around. I will never know if it was my continuous winning that irritated people enough to pick up the struggle or was it Covid19, but somehow everything came together and today we can look back and smile, laugh or sympathise with me.. 

Covid19 - Level 2 Lock down - Why Visit St Lucia Estuary

 St Lucia Estuary 

iSimagaliso Wetlands Park

KwaZulu-Natal

South Africa 

photo by Petrus Viviers

The place where Splendor is born every day is on the East Coast of Africa. The place where Heaven meets Earth is at an Estuary Mouth. It's True that St Lucia Estuary hasn't been connected to the ocean since 2007, but it doesn't mean we cannot enjoy sitting on a dune watching whales frolicking or skinks and snakes slithering across the road. 

We have 2 Diverse Ecosystems that can be accessed by road from St Lucia Estuary, the slumbering little town, The Dry Woodland Western Shores, or The Wetlands on the Eastern Shores of Lake St Lucia. Both venues offer great Birding, Game Viewing, and Walking Trails. 

photo by Petrus Viviers

Yes unfortunately to embark on the walking excursions you need to be somewhat walking fit. About 40 minutes will get you to excellent spots but if you can walk twice that much you might experience the serenity of being totally basked in splendor. 

Amongst The various trails, there is The Southern Beach Walk, The Northern Beach Walk, and all the other little trails that coincide with all these nature revealing walks. 

  

Frankie2Socks and the 4u2fish canpaign

Frankie2Socks (yours  Truly ) is a concerned citizen and an unwilling environmental activist who really just wants to go fishing, and catch fish

Unfortunately, due to shenanigans and crooked folks working for the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, who have since been transfered (with promotions ) and now have greater influence over the poor management of lake St. Lucia, than they had as management staff at the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, we are now obliged to take actions and implement activities that will put pressure on our current government to come to the party and help the Local folks on the ground to revive lake St. Lucia and restore the biological functionality of lake St. Lucia and restore our collective economic strengths that came from the prawns, fish and other renewable resources that Lake St. Lucia provided in the past.

the 4u2fish team have numerous platforms and social media profiles in place to supply information and give support to folks who are willing to take up specific issues with the local municipality and other relevant authorities.  

My personal blog at frankie2socks.blogspot.com is also part of this network of interconnected marketing touch points  

Info4u is our official marketing partner, and they run a community outreach blog at 4ubrand.blogspot.com which discusses the FUFISM marketing philosophy and related online marketing tactics that our collective efforts will need to encompass for best results within online search and connected SERP's, be it internal within social media platforms or external such as at BING DICK DUCK GO or GOOGLE

4u2fish.blogspot.com is our official blog which has an official facebook support page at facebook.com/4u2fish 

problems are plenty and answers from those who should be managing our affairs do not make sense, coz all management has been usurped by the  iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority, who do as they please and refuse to be held accountable for their rather nasty economic impacts within the Umkhanyakude District municipality and the four separate local municipalities 

• Big 5 Hlabisa Local Municipality
• Jozini Local Municipality
• Mtubatuba Local Municipality
• uMhlabuyalingana Local Municipality

MDB code: DC27  The uMkhanyakude District Municipality is a Category C municipality located along the coast in the far north of the KwaZulu-Natal Province. It shares its borders with Swaziland and Mozambique, as well as with the districts of Zululand and King Cetshwayo. It is the second-largest district in the province, and consists of the following four local municipalities: uMhlabuyalingana, Jozini, Big 5 Hlabisa and Mtubatuba. 

 ‘uMkhanyakude' refers to the Acacia Xanthophloea fever tree and means ‘that shows light from afar'., which reffers to the natural colour of the fever  tree, which sticks out like a hound dogs balls, and cant be missed in the bush. The name reflects both the uniqueness of its people and their hospitality, as well as the biodiversity and conservation history that the region is very proud of. The Isimangaliso Wetland Park, formerly Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, encompasses the entire coastline of the Umkhanyakude district Municipality, which has the brand name ELEPHANT COAST and was referred to in the past as the Maputuland Coast.

the #ReviveStLucia campaign and the 4u2fish campaign are working together with many others to get the folks on the ground active, attentive and ready to attend public participation process meetings.where our  collective future is discussed.   

Will they be mining the lake and its connected waterways? 

now this is a very hot topic, and it is a rather emotional one for many.  this question will be discussed at great length in future posts here in this blog, as well as in related blogs and face book profiles for the many separate entities, juristic folks, as well as natural folks  like you and I.   So this space will soon be active and buzzing with many diverse and strange views on the topics connected to both mining and rehabiltating the whole area from Cape St. Lucia light house in the South to the Mozambique border in the north  and inland all the way to the N2. or the iSimangaliso Wetland Park and surrounding rural areas of Umkhanyakude.

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