The supreme court of appeal has demanded action on Highveld air quality management plan

The key theme in the air quality case heard in the supreme court of appeal this week focused on holding government and polluters to account

Environment organisations groundWork and Vukani Environmental Justice Movement argue that regulations are necessary to save lives on the polluted Highveld

Shutting down Eskom’s coal plants and shifting to cleaner technologies will bring ‘cleaner air’ to the polluted Mpumalanga Highveld, says the utility’s environmental manager

Barbara Creecy says her appeal ‘boils down to a question of law’

Judge says environment minister’s denial of the harm caused is at odds with science, and gives her a deadline to prescribe long-delayed pollution regulations

Families in areas of Mpumalanga have to choose between work and health, but new WHO air quality guidelines say the time to act is now

There is no legal mechanism in place to implement and enforce measures to prevent toxic air pollution in the Highveld

The state has filed its opposition to the Deadly Air case, with the environment minister claiming no causal link can be found between air pollution and ill health

Sixteen months after the launch of the Deadly Air court case, the government has failed to file its answering affidavits