Slimes nightmare enrages community
Date : 1995-12-01 Bronwen Jones TEARS and righteousness make a potent mix in an angry young woman out to fight the wealth and might of big industry. Sitting atop a crumbledown dam looking over her community, RenŽe Smith, 21, adjusts blue rimmed spectacles and says: "We will not let them build their dam on our doorsteps. We will not let Merriespruit happen twice." Working for a firm of engineering consultants, she has a better than average understanding of plans to construct a R16,8-million slimes dam at Fleurhof, in apparent disregard for those interred in the mud of Merriespruit and in