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Environmental justice groups have won a legal victory against government over the poor air quality in the Highveld Priority Area.

4 Min Read PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa’s failure to tackle toxic levels of air pollution produced by burning coal is a violation its post-Apartheid constitution, activists and a U.N. rights expert said in court on Monday. General view of the coal-based Kriel Power Station owned by state power utility Eskom in Mpumalanga, near Kriel, South Africa, February 17, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo Campaigners are suing the South African government in the High Court, hoping to force tougher action against heavy polluters such as state power company Eskom and liquid fuel producer Sas...

Activists and government lock horns over coal pollution By Reuters Share PRETORIA - South Africa's failure to tackle toxic levels of air pollution produced by burning coal is a violation its post-Apartheid constitution, activists and a U.N. rights expert said in court on Monday. Campaigners are suing the South African government in the High Court, hoping to force tougher action against heavy polluters such as state power company Eskom and liquid fuel producer Sasol. The campaigners say tougher action is required to enforce a constitutional guarantee of the right to an environment not harmful ...

BACK TO THE HOME PAGE Image: © Mujahid Safodien / Greenpeace 06 March 2021 - Environmental justice groups groundWork and the Vukani Environmental Justice Movement in Action (VEJMA) have responded to papers filed by the Minister of Environment Forestry and Fisheries in the “Deadly Air” court case against government about the toxic and unsafe levels of air pollution that people living and working on the Mpumalanga Highveld are exposed to daily. In her affidavit filed on behalf of all the government respondents, Minister Creecy denies that government is failing in its obligations t...

‘We’re fighting to breathe clean air’ 13 Feb 2021 Dirty danger: Princess Mathebula’s oxygen mask (above). Her mother can’t afford a nebuliser. Black dust coats people’s homes and lungs. The Deadly Air court case applicants argue that toxic air violates people’s constitutional right to an environment that does not not harm them. Photos: Paul Botes Mapule Mdhuli has spent the morning meticulously cleaning her family’s small home in Empumelelweni in Mpumalanga, but a layer of gritty black dust still coats the furniture. “We’re breathing in this same dust,” says Mdhuli, 25, ...