Apartheid's secret oil dump poses environmental risk

03 September 2017 - 00:00
By BOBBY JORDAN

One of apartheid's dirtiest secrets just got messier - a 10-million-barrel lake of oil sludge rising up beneath Mpumalanga mealie fields.

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