Most people don’t know what lies along the Thyspunt coastline.
Ancient fish traps, still visible in the rock. A fossilised forest where Stone Age people found shelter. Shell middens that tell the story of how early humans learned to live from the sea.
In January 2025, South Africa’s national heritage authority gave this landscape its highest level of protection — Grade I Cultural Landscape status. That designation exists for a reason. This is not empty land. It is one of the most archaeologically significant coastlines in the world — holding evidence of human life stretching back 160,000 years.
The proposed nuclear power station at Thyspunt sits on this ground.
The environmental review process has not adequately explained how a facility of this scale and permanence is compatible with Grade I heritage protection. That question needs an answer before this process goes any further.
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