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Radioactive city: how Johannesburgs townships paying for mining past
2015-07-06 07:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Johannesburgs mine dumps look strangely beautiful from a distance. Lustrously yellow in the sun, blazing red at dusk, their huge molehill shapes provide the city with its distinctive skyline. Up close, its a different story. Rasalind Plaatjies has lived in the shadow of a tailing as these piles of mine waste are known all her adult life. Today, the 62-year-old grandmother from the citys Riverlea district suffers severe respiratory problems. For 16 hours a day, she is hooked up to an oxygen...
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