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Category: energy

Gwede Mantashe’s answers over solar heaters highlights gross state incompetence

Taxpayers’ money recklessly wasted due to indifference, lack of planning and failed governance model

Mineral council denies mines are Covid-19 hotspots

Despite evidence that communities around mines are infection epicentres, the Mineral Council of South Africa is scrambling to ‘shape the message’ by fudging the numbers.

Mining communities bear the burden of disease

Despite a court order, residents near mines were ignored when Covid-19 guidelines were drawn up. Now the virus devastates the very people made vulnerable by their operations.

Miners’ lives are cheap compared with rising metal prices

Before Covid-19 the mortality rate among former miners in SA was 20% higher than in the general population

SA must act urgently to exit group of climate-change pariahs

Climate Change and Democracy

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