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Attention has also been focused on the social aspects of dam construction - known as
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) - where residents have to be moved. The Human
Sciences Research Council has inter alia examined the social implications of dams
proposed for the Pongola and Bivane rivers at the Jagtdrift* and Parys sites respectively.
The Department of Geographical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Natal,
Durban, has studied some implications of the Inanda Dam, while the Department of
Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town, has examined
the impacts of several projects in the Cape and at St Lucia. An especially useful social
impact checklist for the Mhlatuze Basin can be found in Anonymous (1991)* * . The
ecological and social effects of water releases and flooding from the Pongolapoort (Jozini)
Dam have received considerable attention in the literature, while the ecological and social
impact of proposed dune mining at St Lucia, is a current (and hotly debated) controversy
(see the bibliographic database). The interested reader is advised to examine the literature
and to integrate the various checklists and matrices for his/her own specific purposes.
Relevant information was often too detailed and complex to reproduce here* * * .
For further information contact:
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CSIR Environmental Services, CSIR, PO Box 395, Pretoria, 0001 .
See Du Plessis, 1.0. (ed), 1989. SosiaJe impakstudie: Jagtdriftdam, Centre for Environmental
Psychology, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, 115 p. + app. See also, Social
Development Research Unit of the Human Sciences Research Council, Chunnett Fourie and Partners,
loxton Venn and Associates, and Van der Meer and Schoonbee Inc., 1993. Republic of South
AfricaIKaNgwane Permanent Water Commission: social impact assessment of the proposed
Driekoppies Dam, Report No. PX 100/00/0193, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Pretoria,
153 p., plus Social Development Research Unit of the Human Sciences Research Council, 1993.
Republic of South AfricalKaNgwane Permanent Water Commission: relocation action plan for the
Driekoppies Dam, Report No. PX 100/00/0293, Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Pretoria,
64 p. (SlAs generally consist of two phases. The first phase involves a pra-feasibility or feasibility
study. The second phase concerns actual project implementation. Numerous issues such as the
social impacts of construction operations and more importantly, the short and long term effects of
the loss of the natural resource base as well as the familiar habitat are highly relevant).
SeeAnonymous, 1991. Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Mhlatuze Basin augmentation prafeasibility
study, VOl 6: Report on the Second IEM Mini-workshop, Report No. PW 120/00/0891,
Watermeyer Legge Piesold and Uhlmann, Johannesburg, various pages.
A useful reference on Integrated Environmental Management (IEM), which includes river regulation,
is the following: Preston, G.R., Robins, N. and Fuggle, R.F., 1992. Chapter 30. Integrated
environmental management, In: Fuggle, R.F. and Rabie, M.A. leds), Environmental Management in
South Africa. Jute, Cape Town, p. 748 - 761. (See also Chapter 31. Environmental evaluation,
p. 762 - 780).