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Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy. (Photo by Ruvan Boshoff/Sunday Times/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BARBARA CREECY

High court slams Creecy for deadly air that breaches SA’s Constitution

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

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
South Africa’s landfill sites are in a terrible state and if drastic measures are not taken, the country will soon drown in its own waste. (Andy Mkosi)
AIR POLLUTION

It’s time to clean up South Africa’s polluted air

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

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Sick of coal: Protesters from Mpumalanga gather outside the high court in Pretoria, where the Deadly Air case is taking place. (Daylin Paul)
AIR POLLUTION

‘We want to breathe fresh air’

The landmark Deadly Air Mpumalanga case has pitted two environmental justice groups against the state

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
A baby who is suffering from respiratory disease receives treatment at Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital in Dhaka. (Photo by Munir Uz Zaman/AFP)
AIR POLLUTION

Dirty air kills 476 000 newborns

In 2019, two-thirds of infant deaths caused by pollution were in sub-Saharan Africa

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read