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Category: Health

Insanitary tradition of fouling Cape Town’s seas

A look at the history of sewage outfalls in the bays around the city shows that residents have been complaining since the first one was completed in 1905. And as now, their concerns were ignored.

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

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