Jagersfontein disaster a wake-up call for SA
Radioactive dust, toxic acid mine water and ‘super-dumps’ the size of shopping malls are part of the toxic legacy of 150 years of mining in SA
18 September 2022 - 00:01
More than 6,000 ownerless or derelict mines have saddled SA with an environmental time bomb, mining stakeholders warned this week in the wake of last weekend’s fatal Jagersfontein disaster...
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