RESOURCES
RESOURCES: PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
Author : | Felicite A Fairer-Wessels |
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School/Work Place : | University of Pretoria, South Africa |
Contact : | ffairerwessels@gmail.com |
Year : | 2016 |
There has always been a disparity between active mining and
tourism mainly due to the socio-economic and environmental impacts of mines on
both the adjacent resident communities and the areas taken up by the mining
operation. Although heritage mining tourism has been actively and successfully
pursued and developed in the UK, largely Wales, and Scandinavian countries, the
debate whether active mining and tourism can have a mutually beneficial
relationship remains imminent and will be explored in this paper.
The study aims to explore the relationship between the ‘to
be developed’ future Nokeng Mine and its adjacent community, the rural
community of Moloto, in terms of the role of corporate social responsibility of
the Mine in embracing economic, social and environmental aspects of
sustainability in providing maximum development benefit through sustainable
tourism and livelihood activities with the support of the Mine. Within the above context and considering the
expectations of both the mine and the community concepts such as corporate social responsibility, sustainable (tourism) development and triple bottom lineare discussed.
The
Nokeng Mine and Moloto community are investigated as a case study with a
qualitative research approach followed using interviews and focus group
discussions of mine representatives, tribal council members and local community
members.