. The Community of Sanddrift reported that there were no permanent doctors in their modern and well equipped hospital; . The issue of racism among the community members, hospitals and workplace was raised; . One of the community members raised a concern about an injury at Alexkor and declared that up to now he had not been paid any compensation; . Heritage tourism is unique in the area and therefore the municipality and government should be serious in promoting local communities on tourism; . Subcontractors are complaining that, when they are subcontracted, Alexkor requires 52% of their income without contributing a cent to the job; . High rate of accidents as result of bad roads between Alexkor and Kubus; . The communities complained about unfair evictions from the mine houses; . There are no proper facilities, e.g. schools, hospitals and play grounds; . The communities also mentioned that they are prepared to move to the RDP houses provided that Government builds better houses; . Property rights do not exist in Alexander Bay for the following reasons: o Renting is not secure; o No opportunity to invest; o The community members who have worked at the mine for many years cannot purchase a property in Alexander Bay for their retirement; . Fire fighting in the community - Joint Rescue Committee with Transhex and Richtersveld Community. . Community must find an alternative to mining; . Road to Kuboes was destroyed by a tornado five years ago and had not been repaired as yet; . Richtersveld Restitution Land Claim is now in place, however the people are still without jobs and there are no benefits; and the implementation of the settlement agreement needs to be monitored; . The Chairperson of the Community Property Association (CPA) was not present; . Community has problems with CPA and Pooling and Sharing Joint Venture; . An urgent call for the empowerment and management training of the committees of these organizations; . Settlement Agreement is not implemented; . Mariculture project is not open to the people and the project was closed down by the Richtersveld Agricultural Holdings Company; . Small-scale marine miners complained about the 5% royalties to be paid; . The inequality of deals offered to the contractors; . Problems with mining and prospecting rights in the area; . Due to climate change, shallow water miners have had sea-mining days reduced from 150 to 20 days; it was an in-house project, and miners lost 80% of the mining fleet in last two years; . On 24 June 2008 M Temba CEO / Chairperson of Alexkor, investigated finances and the qualifications of the Alexkor board and other directorships ; . Port Nolloth has no water at night; and . A good technical high school is required.