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Mariette Liefferink wrote:
While I sincerely thank the journalist and publishers of Leadership for the professional, honest and courageous report on AMD, permit me please to correct three misrepresentations: I have not referred to Wemmer Pan as acutely toxic. The reference was to the Tweelopiespruit within the West Rand.
Secondly, the chronic exposure to AMD can lead to mental retardation, cancer, cognitive malfunction and skin lesions. Regrettably there has been no toxicological studies done in order to quantify the health impacts.
Thirdly, the sentence: "We have to control mine drainage, sewage dumping, and Pelindaba regularly dumps nuclear waste into the Crocodile River. People shouldn’t be anywhere near the Hartbeespoort Dam - not buying property there, not sailing, not fishing, and not eating the fish,” does not originate from me hence cannot be attributed to me.
The article published in LEADERSHIP on 17 July 2010 follows:
Massive pollution threat to economic heartland