As a heavy wind blows over the West Rand, clouds of dust swirl from clusters of barren mine dumps towering over both sides of Main Reef Road, turning the skyline a ghostly white.It’s a bleak scene that environmental justice activist Mariette Liefferink knows all too well
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The Gauteng High Court of a R5-billion settlement between gold mining companies and former employees who have contracted silicosis and tuberculosis.
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It has been revealed that a large percentage of the world’s biggest miners are not tracking their tailings risk management measures
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The threat of contamination is hard to escape; at the foot of her neighbourhood’s mining heap is greenish water that is used for irrigating land or feeding livestock, and some children bathe in it.
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