Moving graves and people for coal mines: the devastating costs of mining in South Africa

By Dineo Skosana, Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand

About 80% of South Africa’s electricity still comes from burning coal. The country’s 108 coal mines have resulted in many communities being forced off their land from the 1970s to date. They have not…

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