Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd Brick Making Facility Environmental .

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. 1.2.2 Description of EIA process The S&EIR process consists broadly of a Scoping process and an Impact Assessment analysis. In the commencement of the project, a pre-application consultation process with the DEA&DP was undertaken. An application for Environmental Authorisation was filed with the DEA&DP on 2017-02-02. Table 1 below sets out the proposed methodology and deadlines for each phase of the EIA process. Intended dates may be subject to change dependent on circumstantial requirements and on input from IAPs in the Public Participation Process (PPP). Table 1: Project Phase outline with proposed schedule. Project Phase Phase 1: PreApplication Scoping Phase Activity Publish Adverts, inform Reg IAP/Stakeholders and erect notice on property. Proposed Deadline 2017-01-25 Comment Completed Phase 2: Scoping Phase Submit Application to DEA&DP: Commencement of 44 day period to submit Final SR 2017-02-02 Completed Distribute Draft SR. Commencement of 30 day PPP 2017-02-08 Closure of comment period 2017-03-10 Submit Final SR to DEA & DP. Distribute to IAPS 2017-03-18 DEA&DP reviews SR 43 days 4 days for Easter shut down 2017-05-04 Phase 4: Environmental Impact Reporting phase and draft Environmental Management Programme Develop EIR and EMPR. (Legislated to submit within 106 days but shorten to 60 days start process 2017-0424 including 30 days PPP 2017-06-23 Phase 5: Submission of EIA Report to DEA&DP DEA&DP reviews EIR and EMPr 107 days 2017-10-08 Phase 6: Decision by the Authority DEA&DP issues EA 5 days 2017-10-13 Notification period 14 days 2017-10-27 Phase 3: Submission of Scoping Report to DEA&DP Maximum time and may be shortened at discretion of the DEA&DP Maximum time and may be shortened at discretion of the DEA&DP Page 7

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. 1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE SCOPING PROCESS The objectives of the scoping process are listed below as defined in Appendix 2 of the NEMA regulations GN 982: Identify stakeholders and IAP’s and inform them of the proposed activity; provide stakeholders and IAP’s the formal opportunity to participate fully and effectively in the process and raise any issues and concerns that may be associated with the proposed activity; identify the relevant policies and legislation relevant to the activity and describe the S&EIR procedure; motivate the need and desirability of the proposed activity, including the need and desirability of the activity in the context of the preferred location; identify and confirm the preferred activity and technology alternative through an impact and risk assessment and ranking process; describe the affected environment and identify and confirm the preferred site, through a detailed site selection process, which includes an impact and risk assessment process inclusive of cumulative impacts and a ranking process of all the identified alternatives focusing on the geographical, physical, biological, social, economic, and cultural aspects of the environment; identify the key issues to be addressed in the assessment phase; agree on the level of assessment to be undertaken, including the methodology to be applied, the expertise required as well as the extent of further consultation to be undertaken to determine the impacts, both positive and negative and risks the activity will impose on the preferred site through the life of the activity, including the nature, significance, consequence, extent, duration and probability of the impacts to inform the location of the development footprint within the preferred site; and identify suitable measures to avoid, manage or mitigate identified impacts and to determine the extent of the residual risks that need to be managed and monitored. Page 8

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. 2 CONTACT DETAILS OF THE PROPONENT The applicant for the proposed brick making facility is a newly registered entity Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. The company registration certificate is provided in Appendix D. Table 2: Applicant Details Company: Registration No. Contact persons Postal Address: Phone: Email Company Details: Robertson Bakstene (Pty.) Ltd 2015/446998/07 Morne Swanepoel P O Box 234 Robertson, 6705 27 (0)82 374 6949 rotadrill@breede.co.za 3 LOCATION OF ACTIVITY Appendix 2 Paragraph 2 (b) of GN 982 requires that the locality of the activity is provided. The proposed brick factory is located on a portion of the farm Gannabosch Vlakte 51, approximately 14 km west of the town centre of Robertson in the Western Cape, South Africa. The property lies 700 m to the northeast of the TR 31/1, R60 national road, and can be accessed via the Agter-Vinkrivier turnoff. (See Figure 14, Appendix A. The coordinates of the boundary points are listed in Table 4. Table 3: Receiving Property Details Farm Name Farm Number Portion Local Authority Registration Division Extent SG 21-digit code Landowner Title Deed Company Details: GANNABOSCH VLAKTE 51 51 N/a Langeberg Municipality N/a 117.5119 hectares C06500000000005100000 H R Grobbelaar Family Trust T 4135995 Table 4: Coordinates of the boundary of the brick factory Boundary Point BF1 BF2 BF3 BF4 19.747220; 19.746500; 19.743695; 19.744820; Latitude, Longitude -33.754160 -33.755310 -33.752404 -33.751671 Page 9

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. 4 LAYOUT PLAN Appendix 2 Paragraph 2 (c) of GN 982 requests layout plans at various level of detail and scale showing the infrastructure and locality of the proposed development. These can be found in Appendix A of this report. Figure 14 shows the regional setting of the farm on which the development is proposed. Figure 15 is locality map showing the more immediate surroundings as well as the footprint of the mine concession area within the farm Gannabosch Vlakte 51. Figure 16 and Figure 17 illustrate support services and detailed conceptual infrastructure respectively. The coordinates within which the activity is proposed are shown in Table 4. 5 SCOPE OF THE ACTIVITY 5.1 LISTED AND SPECIFIED ACTIVITIES TRIGGERED Appendix 2 Paragraph 2 (d)(i) of GN 982, requires that all llisted activities from the National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998), which will be triggered are specified. These are provided in Table 5 for GN 983 and Table 6 for GN 984. It is noted that no activities will be triggered under Listing Notice 3 (GN 985). Table 5: Listing Notice 1 (No. GN. 983). Triggers in terms of 24 (2) and 24D. Activity Number Activity description 12 The development of 2 (ii) channels exceeding 100 m in size, 2 (x) building exceeding 100 m in size (xii) infrastructure and structures with a 2 physical footprint of 100 m or more; where such development occurs (a) within a watercourse, (c) if no development setback exists, within 32 metres of a water course, measured from the edge of a watercourse. 19 27 The infilling or depositing of any material of more than 5 cubic metres into, or the dredging, excavation, removal or moving of soil, sand, shells, shell grit, pebbles or rock of more than 5 cubic metres from (i) a watercourse; The clearance of an area of 1 hectare or more, but less than 20 hectares of indigenous vegetation. Portion of the proposed project to which the applicable listed activity relates. The development will partly occur on or in close vicinity to an ephemeral water course. Hence, the drainage line will be diverted and building and or infrastructure erected within the buffer zone of the water course. The diversion of the water course is covered under the environmental authorization process and WULA by the Gannabosch Clay Mine. It is expected that the water course will be filled up with material from the surrounding to provide the platform and foundation for the infrastructure referred to above. Clearance of vegetation is required in preparation of the ground on which to build and place the Factory and the associated infrastructure. Page 10

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. Activity Number Activity description 28 Residential, mixed, retail, commercial, industrial or institutional developments where such land was used for agriculture on or after 01 April 1998 and where such development: (ii) will occur outside an urban area, where total land to be developed is bigger than 1 hectare. Portion of the proposed project to which the applicable listed activity relates. The property is zoned agriculture, but will be used for commercial and industrial purposes. A temporary departure for the land zoning has been applied for. Table 6: Listing Notice 2 (No. GN. 984) Triggers in terms of 24 (2) and 24D Activity Number Activity description 6 The development of facilities or infrastructure for any process or activity which requires a permit or licence in terms of national or provincial legislation governing the generation or release of emissions, pollution or effluent. 28 Commencing of an activity, which requires an atmospheric emission license in terms of section 21 of the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No. 39 of 2004). 5.2 5.2.1 Portion of the proposed project to which the applicable listed activity relates. The brick making facility will produce more than 100 000 bricks per month, and thus in terms of GN 551 of 2015, which promulgates amendments to the listed activities in terms of section 21 of the Air Quality Act, is required to apply for an Atmospheric Emissions Licence. See above DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES STRUCTURES AND INFRASTRUCTURE The Brick Making Process Appendix 2 Paragraph 2 (d) (ii) of GN 982, requests for detailed description of the activities of the development. The proposed brick making facility, Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd will source clay from the clay mine on Gannabosch Vlakte 51. The material will be transported from the mine stockpile to the offload point at the brick making facility. Mined clay ore is a material, all of which is used in brick making, and not a mineral that needs to be extracted or won (as in the term “winnings”) from a host rock by primary processing of crushing, washing, screening. At the brick factory stockpile, the material will then be reclaimed using a front-end loader and transferred onto the production line, where the beneficiation process is begun. See flowchart in Figure 1. Page 11

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. Figure 1: Simplified flowchart of the brick making process. To supply the needs of the brick factory at start up, operating at a production rate of 2 million units per month*, an extraction rate of 60 000 to 70 000 tons, or approximately 45 000 m3, of ore per annum is required. This is demonstrated and explained as follows: 1 m3 dry clay excavated 1073 kg; 1 m3 wet lump clay excavated 1602 kg; Assume a mix of dry and wet and use 1 500 kg (std industry norm); Excavate 27.6 m3 per hour 41.4 tons per hour 331.2 tons per day, assuming 8-hour working day 66 240 tons per year, assuming 200 working days per year 60 500 – 70 000 tons per annum 40 000 – 47 000 m3 per annum Assume a mined volume of 45 000 m3 per annum for start-up, to be increased gradually as demand and capacity of BMF increases and within limits defined by the Air Emission License. *1 m3 500 bricks 45 000 m3 22 500 000 brick per annum Page 12

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. Hence, approximately 40 tons of raw material per hour, is tipped into a feed hopper to be crushed, ground and screened, via two crushers, a fine crusher and a roller crusher. The coarser mixture, from the roller crusher is mixed with the finer crushed material to the desired blend. Body fuel in the form of coal dust called duff coal is then added to the dry mix in a 15 % by mass ratio, this provides the fuel for the firing process. Approximately 3500 to 4000 litres of water is mixed into the raw material. This implies the water demand of the processing plant is a maximum 4000 litres per hour. The raw material and water are mixed together in a process called “pugmilling”. The resultant mix is sent through an extruder where the bricks are extruded in a sausage. The extruded sausage is fed into conveyer for cutting to final shape. Green bricks are transported to a drying area where they are air dried for approximately two to three weeks, dependent on weather conditions. The bricks are then transported to the clamp kilns where they are fired into the finished hardened clay brick product. The clamp furnace is charged with small nut coal for ignition (2.6% of the clay mass). After firing, the cooling process takes a week after which the product is ready for palleting and transferred to the final product stock yard for despatch. The estimated 40 tons of clay per hour will produce roughly 10 000 to 12 000 bricks an hour. Assuming an eight-hour work day, and a five-day work week, this will equate to 1.6 to 2.0 million bricks a month. The drying yard will be 2-3 hectares and has adequate space for the amount of bricks coming out from the factory. The drying process as specified above takes 2-3 weeks. Each kiln has the capacity to fire 500 000 bricks. The kilns are powered by coal that is previously added to the bricks as duff, as well as a thin layer of ignition nugget coal between the first and second layer of bricks to get the oven started. Not all four kilns will be fired simultaneously. The firing process takes one to two weeks and each kiln will be fired up as bricks become available from the drying yard. 5.2.2 Site & Service and Equipment Description Electrical supply source for the factory is provided by the 480 kva transformer feedpoint (marked power supply kiosk) as illustrated in Figure 16. This in turn is supplied from the Hex/Noree 166kV Overhead Line. An underground cable will provide the power via the Langvlei road servitude to the entry point of the factory. Water will be provided from a borehole located on the farm Lange Vallei Remainder 52 to the south of the R60. A conceptual routing of the pipeline is shown in Figure 16, which avoids crossing of drainage lines, road and railways. A backup supply borehole is to be positioned at a Page 13

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. point to the northwest of the mine, on the neighbouring farm Alwynbos Vlakte No 299. Supplementary water supply will be provided by stormwater reticulation; further detail of this is provided in the Stormwater Management Plan of the Gannabosch Mine (Umvoto Africa, 2017). Rainwater harvesting from factory roof surface with tank storage will further supplement supply. 5.2.3 The conceptual brick factory layout The total land unit required for the production facility is 51 000 m2 (5.1 ha). (See Figure 17). A conceptual layout plan showing the positioning of all processing equipment, approximate sizes of individual areas, as well as stages in production is shown in Figure 18: Conceptual layout plan showing brick processing infrastructure with estimated sizes of individual areas. A storage area for the receiving and stockpiling of clay and coal will be surrounded by berms for stormwater erosion control and shielded with netting on the windward sides to manage dust blowout. This area is envisaged at approximately 1 600 ha in extent. The raw clay will be then be loaded onto the conveyer system and transported into the processing plant. The processing plant will be housed in a covered shed area approximately 5 300 m2 in extent. Extruded green brick will be laid out in a drying yard area 12 600 m2. Clamp kiln ovens will be built from brick product, these are to be positioned on the western extent of the factory area. It is envisaged that at any one stage there will be a maximum of four kilns in operation each 15 by 20 meters in size and the total area envisaged for ovens is 5 300 m2. Cooling and curing of the fired brick takes place in the cooling area, 12 000 m2, and the final product is loaded onto pallets and moved to the despatch area 14 000 m2 in extent for collection. The various areas will be connected via a network of internal roads. The parking and despatch area is sufficiently large to allow large double trailer links to turn on site and will be hard surfaced to limit dust. Access to/from the development site will be off DR 1384 that intersects TR 31/1 to the south. DR 1384 also provides access to Langvlei train station and Cape Lime factory. Figure 17 show that there is sufficient shoulder sight distance both to the left and right along DR 1384 at the position of the proposed access to the development to deem the entry/exit point safe. Page 14

Robertson Bakstene (Pty) Ltd. 6 POLICY AND LEGISLATIVE CONTEXT OF ENVIRONMENT WITHIN WHICH THE DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED The legislative background to a scoping report is required to fulfil Paragraph 2 (e) of Appendix 2 of GN 982. Several planning policies, spatial development plans, guidelines and legislation, at the local, municipal and regional level, are relevant to the brick factory development. It will be incumbent on the proponent to ensure that the development is consistent with these polices. This will be covered in the scoping process and detailed in the Final Scoping Report and the EIA report. A suggestion of the appropriate polices that will be consulted are listed below. If additional guidelines are noted in the PPP, these will be added to the Final Scoping Report. The Western Cape Provincial, Cape Winelands District Municipality and Langeberg Local Municipality Spatial Development Frameworks; Integrated Development Plans (IDP’s) for the Cape Winelands District Municipality and the Langeberg Local Municipality; Western Cape Road Access Guidelines, Second Edition 2002; Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Guideline for Involving Visual and Aesthetic Specialists in the EIA process and DEA&DP guidelines for involving biodiversity specialists in the EIA process (DEA&DP 2005). 7 NEED AND DESIRABILITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PROPOSED Appendix 2 Paragraph 2 (f) of GN 982, calls for an understanding of the benefit and aptness of the proposed development, regionally and locally. The brick making factory will receive clay from the nearby Gannabosch Clay Mine. Processing and manufacture of the finished product needs to take place as close to, or preferably at the mine location. Transport of raw clay to an offsite process plant would not be economically viable nor logistically efficient. Raw clay is seldom traded, thus proximity to a self-owned brick plant is necessary. Th

Figure 16: Layout Plan of proposed brick factory (Black area marked BF1 to BF4) on . exploitation of clay ore for providing a resource for brick manufacturing. Robertson Bakstene (Pty.) Ltd (henceforth RB) is the enterprise that will be beneficiating the clay ore into the brick product, this process is intended to take place on or close to .