Water reserve loses ground to coal mine - The Mail & Guardian
Water reserve loses ground to coal mine 18 Feb 2021 Undermining: The Mabola Protected Environment in Mpumalanga, which supplies South Africa with half of its water, is once again being threatened by coal mining. (Robert C Nunnington) The protected status of a large part of the Mabola Protected Environment area near Wakkerstroom has been revoked by Mpumalanga’s minister for agriculture and environmental affairs. Now the way appears to have been cleared for a firm linked to Jacob Zuma’s relatives to mine for coal there. On 8 December, MEC Vusi Shongwe published a notice of exclusion “to p...
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