Revisiting The 1942 Development Plan

Aquafarming The St Lucia System

The iMfolozi Flood Plains

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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.

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Petrus Viviers

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

Hoe Belangrik is n Estuarium

Borrowed because it best explain my message

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Hoe Belangrik is n Estuarium

Verbeel jou jy will besef hoe belangrik is n funksionerende Estuarium. Verbeel jou jy het die moed om met oorgawe die rol van n Estuarium in Moeder Natuur te probeer verstaan. Indien jy eg is in jou behoefte om te probeer verstaan vra dan n vriend of vriendin.. liefs n geliefde om jou te help, want dit moet iemand met empatie wees. Iemand wat sal omgee dat jy sal oorleef.

Sodra jy die persoon ge eien het en jou lewe aan hom of selfs, as jy braaf is, 'n haar dan kan jy hierdie baie belangrike oefening doen in vertroue. Die oefening wat jy speels sal verstaan dat ons op geleende tyd speel. Ons in die laaste fraksie ... Die laaste breukdeel van n sekond funksioneer.

Die eksperiment kan of sittend of staande uitgevoer word. Mens sou nou dink dat die n grap is, maar nee die mag dalk die belangrikste oefening in oorlewing wees wat jy nog gedoen het. Gaan staan of sit nou met jou rug na die persoon toe. Dis belangrik dat jy volkome ontspan. So ontspanne wees dat jy voel jy in n alternatiewe realiteit bevind... Amper n stase van slaap. Die is die belangrikste deel van die oefening.

Hoekom so ontspanne wees dat jy in droomland se randjie beweeg. Omdat ons in werklikheid in realiteit so ontspanne is dat ons glad nie ag slaan op die realiteit wat ons in die gesig staar nie. Ons is so vasgevang in ons eie weergawe van die werklikheid dat ons onsself nie n oomblik gun om die realiteit te verwerk nie.

Goed die persoon moet ferm wees. Met geen genade nie, want ons het in ons apatiese verantwoordelikheid sin geen genade nie. Die persoon wat jy gekies het moet sterk wees. Sterk in wil en gees.. sterk wees in vlees ook, want die greep wat ons op Moedernatuur se voortbestaan het is n genadelose ene. In werklikheid n meedoënlose ene. 

Wag die persoon moet doen is om sy of haar een arm ferm om jou te slaan. So by so dat jy nie een van jou twee arms kan beweeg nie. Al wikkel en kriewel jy hoe. Al probeer jy spartel. Die persoon se greep moet ferm en onwrikbaar wees. Soos die greep wat ons as mens op moeder natuur het. 

Verder moet die persoon nou sy of in die brawe mense se gevalle haar hand oor jou mond plaas. Op so manier dat hulle duim en voorvinger jou neus toe knyp. Jou mond smoor en jou laat smag na asem. Dit gaan nie help as sy of haar ferm greep speels gebreek kan word nie, wang ons gee Moedernatuur nie n spelerige kans nie. 

Die ander deel van sy haar hand moet jou mond ook by ferm en stewig toe gehou word. Die greep moet van so aard wees dat jy na asem smag, maar geen manier het om dit in te teug nie. Geen manier om los te worstel nie. Die doel van die oefening is om jou te versmoor. Die lewensgewende asem jou te ontneem. Jou van jou suurstof inasem te vervreem.

Hy of sy moet vasklou as jy begin spartel... Begin smag na asem. Jou kop moet sing.. jy moet swart neuwels voor jou begin sien. Jy moet verward nee bang nee magteloos voel hoe jy van jou lewe ontneem word. Jy moet vreesbevange wees die persoon gaan geen skiet gee nie. Daar moet n verwilderde wille hulp kreet in jou oë verskyn.

Hoekom sou jy braaf wees om iemand van die vroulike geslag te gebruik. Hoekom. Want n moeder is ongenaakbaar as dit kom by die veg vir die oorlewing van haar kinders. Sy sal enige iemand verbete veg wat haar kroos bedreig. Sy sal selfs to moord in staat wees om hulle veilig te hou.

Nou as die vroulike weergawe van mens eers besef dat die oefening die toekoms van haar kroos bepaal, mag sy dalk dit baie letterlik opneem om die boodskap aan jou oor te dra. 

Sonder n Estuarium kan geen wese op aarde asemhaal nie. Niks of niemand nie.

Dis hier waar die see en die revier ontmoet waar asem gebore word. Dis hier waar die enigste organisme wat koolsuurgas verwerk gekweek word. Dis hier waar lewe begin.

Eers as jy die waarde van asem verstaan sal jy jou plig teenoor die St Lucia sisteem besef.

Haal Asem sê jy. Ontspan sê jy. Wel hoe verwag jy moet Moedernatuur asemhaal as jy jou rug op haar draai. As jy elke hulp kreet ignoreer. As jy weier om jou greep op haar te laat skiet.

Dis hier waar jy moet besef... Ons lewe in haar doodsnikke.

Help moeder natuur om haarself te help. Teken die petisie en aanvaar dat ons nie Moedernatuur aan haar eie genadelose lot kan oorlaat nie. Dat ons nie kan bekostig om haar hulpkreet na asem kan en mag ignoreer nie.

Herstel St Lucia Veldtog

Petrus Viviers

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23 July 2017 - Estuary Current Condition

No Rehabilitation in Sight

Purely Man Made Manipulation

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To claim that this is rehabilitation is total bullshit. It saddens me that UNESCO supports this lie. This is man made manipulation of the truth. Nothing Less Nothing More. It is believed that Mr Zaloumis is well spoken in the art of manipulation. One resident claims that Mr Zaloumis has disclosed to him that as long as you give people hope you can manipulate their support. Well since he is a self proclaimed Gun Runner off the ANC Regime it is clear that he is walking their walk and talking their talk. He also seems to be very good at it.

Well I never though that Conspiracy at this scale is possible, but neither can I believe that all this is a coincident. True it could be that the major role players in the Industry is oblivious to what they are part taking in or it could be that they stupid enough to be manipulated. Either way we have to be careful on who we give our public support to. 

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Now I am not one vetting for public support, but it is clear some one has to state the facts regarding fishing and angling rights and environmental management and affairs. The final evidence that produced my Mr Richard Pen-sawyer on behalf of the state  that permanently closed our recreational use of 4x4 vehicles on the beach ... was a little crab that lived in the mud banks between the iMfolozi and St Lucia Estuary. Since the assistance of this little  crab is so insignificant to iSimangaliso Wetland Park and UNESCO I personally don't see any reasons to keep 4x4 Recreational users of the beaches any more.

Further this bull shit of Catch and Release as per World Best Practice needs to be addressed. The Recreational Fishing Industry is the fastest and biggest out door sport in the World. We are handing our rights to share in this Industry to By Catches on Huge Trawlers that indiscriminately over fish our coast lines or quotas allocated to them on biggest bribe biggest quota system. This has the result of the Recreational Rock and Surf angler that has to over compensate in allocated bag limits and over regulated fraternity.

Bruce Mann for one is totally biased towards over regulating the Recreational Rock and Surf Angler.  It may secure a well funded life style for him, but it is robbing a well balanced poor and under fed society all along the coastal regions. This has pulled the plug on many Domestic Tourism ventures around the country and with its most devastating impact on rural and remote destinations.

We must re think on who we give our public support to. Public perception plays a major role in decisions making. If we do not know what the facts are we should not get involved.


By Petrus (Bierpens) Viviers
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Where has the water gone?

Public Perception

Managing The Truth

"Due to the nature of mass media the truth is irrelevant". - Captain Paul Watson

Well that is not quite as simple as that. Paul Watson has made a life out of managing public perception through emotional mass media statements. Yet nothing he does is relevant in saving the planet. Japan still kill whales. Some species of whales has become the rodents of the ocean and we are still very much emotional about Trophy Hunting.  Social popularity dictates that we have to be the Alpha Sheep to be acceptable. 

In order to save the Planet from greedy people and that includes Paul Watson, we have to embark on a fact finding mission. For many years a big concern was where does the water go. Well the answer is smoked screened in wind directions, evaporation and even tidal movements. So let us forget about all that. Let us focus on Mathematics. Something we can compute with out expensive computers to do the algorithms. 

To pump sediment from the beach we need to do it at a flow rate of 7 litres of water for every 1 kg of sand. Now that is easy to calculate how much water you need if you know how much sand you have to move. So the question begs it self to be asked. Why does one start with a water born sediment removal program in the begging of the winter (April 2016) in the height of a drought? The asthmatics is basic (Sediment Volume x 7 = Water Displacement).

Any way so the project was set at 11 years for completion. This was clearly not acceptable because in January 2017 mechanical equipment was brought in to move 96 000 cubes of sand. This is at the height of the Turtle Hatching Season.

St Lucia Estuary Hatchlings

But it did not stop there ... a total of 19 dump trucks and some excavators and bull dossers was incorporated to complete the next phase of the rehabilitation plan. Today it seems that the excavators has run into some difficulty digging out the mud from the previous iMfolozi River Flood plain. Any farmer can tell you that mud is the seal of a dam. Now the Estuary is no dam. but something has to keep the water above sea level. Sine the current water table is 1.2 meter above mean sea level. 

Some more food for though will be coming this way soon.

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   Petrus Viviers
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Moenie my kom Tos vertel nie

St Lucia Estuary

Mens Gemaakte Ekologiese Ramp 

Water Vlakke hoogste in lang ruk

Die eie ek ... mens mag mos niks in die dorp se nie dan word jy gekruisig. So lank die hoog heilige beskerm word. Ek is jammer niemand staan op en stap saam my die pad om verdere slagting te voorkom nie. Dus word dit nou my geveg. Wel ek het niks meer om te verloor nie. Aangesien die 'n Wêreld Erfenis gebied is kan ek in Hongkong gaan woon en nog steeds 'n mening hê. Die gesondheid en welstand van die gebied rus nie op 'n paar wanne bees se vermoeë om kak te praat nie. Ek het net soveel reg soos die volgende persoon.

St Lucia gaan gebuk onder droogte, maar die see het baie water. In 2000 was dit 'n mens gemaakte besluit om die mond toe te stoot. In 2007 was dit 'n mens gemaakte besluit om die mond toe te stoot. Die kanaal wat die Estuarium en die see verbind het in 2015 was 'n mens gemaakte kanaal en was nie volgens daai mens se voorgeskrewe bestuursplan, soos Dr Barry Clark aan ons voor gehou is in 2013, gegrou nie. Geen insette van MY kant af was aangehoor gedurende 2015 nie. Die aanloop van die ramp was voorspel. 

Deur die afsterwe van die See Lewe in die meer nou af te maak as n natuur ramp is kinderagtig en uiters onprofessioneel. As mense wat in beheer is ophou om Rekenaars Spelletjies met ons pragtige erfnis (As julle so wil ... my pragtige erfnis) te speel en bietjie meer op die strand kom sal hulle self kan sien hulle jaag kak aan en dan nie sluwe boelies huur om mense soos ek stil te maak nie.

Julle mors julle tyd en julle geld om te dink ek gaan ophou om julle aan die publiek uit te lewer. Daar is net een manier hoe die ding uitspeel. Gee die hengelaar sy reg wat hom toekom en hou op kak praat in n poging om die meer dood te maak....

Lionel Pretorius Net so in Zululand. Hluhluwe dam 19% vol. Lake St Lucia "world wetlands heritage site" vat 180 000 vierkante water en 30% vol alle selewe so te se uitgesterf. Ons bid vir oorvloed reen deur die land. Amen

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As jy jou gewete wil sus Lionel sal jy baie meer moet bid my vriend of begin die waarheid praat. Ek is nie dom nie. Ek gaan nie weg gaan nie. Die stryd vir die werkende Estuarium gaan nie ophou nie.  Hoe langer julle met julle mens gemaakte leuens aanhou hoe verder gaan die park in anargie verval .... Dis n onvermydelike politieke uitkoms. Dit word Demokrasie genoem. Ek skryf nie die toedrag van sake en die uitkoms nie. Ek lig net die feite uit vir die mense wat voor gelieg word.

Groete

         Petrus Viviers

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Beware of overselling iSimangaliso - False Advertising

iSimangaliso Wetlands Park

The Status has changed in 2012

To Claim the 1999 World Heritage Facts is False 

Today is 03 February 2017. Back in 2012 the health status has officially changed from pristine marine ecosystem to Class E Estuarine, basically a mud bath. Lodge Owners, Advertisers and Tour operators can no longer offer the health status at time of World Heritage Proclamation as the point of reference in their marketing. People want to get their money worths. For domestic tourist it means a whole year of saving. For the International Tourist it mostly mean a once in a lifetime opportunity. 

Many people are deeply disappointed that they can no longer drink a sundowner on the beaches like way back then. Unfortunately it does not stop there. Back in 2012 The Scientist employed by Andrew Zaloumis has admitted to the degradation of the system healt. In 2015 a total collapse incurred when the Estuary dried up completely due to a sudden wind direction change. The Total Aquatic Marine Biomass was lost. Currently The St Lucia system no longer presents the functioning of an Estuary.

See Estuary101

With this came a decline in the biomass off bird species that frequent the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park. (iSimangaliso Wetlands Park). The road infrastructure and hides has impacted negatively on the sense of space. Prior to World Heritage Status you arrived at a mystical point. It was more about the journey than the destination. Today everything is so clinical First World Development. nothing is majestic or mythical any more. You see your destination a mile away and you drive on tar roads and cement highways to get there.

So people just a word of caution. Please inform you clients

1. Reduced Parking Spaces
2. No more Sundowners
3. No more Marine Biomass
4. Reduced Bird Biomass
5. Non Functioning Estuary
6. Random Mission Rocks Access Closure
7. Elephant Road Blocks costing R500.00/vehicle
8. Men in Camo Uniform searching private vehicles

The list may be longer. This is the key futures the public express their concern about.

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Main Beach Road - Not Bus Friendly

iSimangaliso Wetlands Park

Andrew Zaloumis

We Will No Longer be Bullied

Since Andrew comes to public participation meetings to bully the ladies and fragile we will no longer tolerate it. This medium will now be used to exposed the Hubrist Management Style that has taken away from the people and given to one man and his quest to become famous. Unfortunately fame doesn't come with out hard work.  

I am Petrus Viviers and do not seek fame. I only seek that the World Heritage Act of 1999 be implemented and that we, the public, can enjoy and benefit from this lovely park that we all love so much, 

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Big plans for Wetlands Park

March 23, 2007
Zululand OBSERVER


Big plans for Wetlands Park

ON 1 May the Wetland Authority is taking over the management of the St Lucia beach front. This includes the undertaking of extensive repairs and ensuring appropriate service levels.
At Cape Vidal, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife have committed to undertaking the required repairs and maintenance to ensure that the day visitor facilities will be in a proper working order - this includes taps, showers and toilet cisterns.
The water issues at Cape Vidal are related to the rather erratic municipal supply to St Lucia town and the southern section of the Wetland Park experienced during December 2006. The Park is currently installing an auxiliary water system for emergencies in future.
Parking areas are also being rehabilitated by Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife following the heavy December rains.

Improvements
Braai grids are available on request from the Vidal reception office at Cape Vidal. This service will be advertised more prominently to day visitors.
We hope that many will have noticed the conservation successes and improvements on the Eastern Shores over the last few years.
These include the removal of 15 000 hectares of exotic pine plantations and significant changes in the game viewing experience due to the introduction and increase in the numbers of game such as zebra, oribi, white rhino, kudu, buffalo, water buck and hippo.
Visitor access in normal sedan vehicles has also significantly improved with the tarring of the 33km road from St Lucia to Cape Vidal and an additional 18km western shores game drive route.
By Easter another two 2x4 game drive loop roads along with pan view point roads will be open to visitors.
The complete rebuilding of the 4km Mission Rocks road is underway.
Also in process, is the building of new serviced public picnic site overlooking the Lake St Lucia at Catalina Bay and Mission Rocks view point.
A new state of the art hide with 2x4 access is being built at the Mfabeni pan. The Cape Vidal gate and car park at the crocodile farm is also being upgraded.
These upgrades are not limited to the Eastern Shores.
On the Western Shores a new section of park will be open shortly along with a 2x4 game drive from St Lucia to Charter’s Creek with new hides, game viewing roads and other infrastructure.
Like the Eastern Shores thousands of hectares of pine plantations have been removed and game such as elephant, black and white rhino, giraffe, buffalo, tsetsesbe, water buck introduced.
Day visitor upgrades and conservation improvements are also in progress in the uMkhuze Game Reserve and Sodwana section of the World Heritage Site.

Job creation
Implementation of signage and park furniture programme (benches, braai’s etc.) begins in March 2007 and over the next two financial years signage and furniture in day visitor areas across the Park will be replaced. The Eastern Shores and St Lucia beach front are part of Phase 1 of this roll-out.
Importantly, significant local spin offs have been created in this process. Over 50 SMME have been contracted per annum and 4500 local jobs created each year. More than the 350 jobs dune mining would have been created.
In order to help us manage a World Heritage site that we can all be proud of, we appeal to locals and tourists who care about the Greater St Lucia Wetland Park to contact us directly to report compliance issues, concerns or complaints.
Please contact Wetland Authority’s Media Officer, Pontso Pakkies, at wetlandmedia@mweb.co.za for general issues or Peter Hartely, Compliance Officer on hartelypete@mweb. co.za for compliance issues. Both can be contacted on 035 5901633.
Alternatively Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife tourism related issues contact Ian Porter at iporter@kznwildlife.com or 031 274 1158 or conservation issues Dirk Rousouw at roussouwd@kznwildlife.com or 035 5909002.