The legacy of mining: an environmental and health disaster in the making

by The Science InsideFebruary 25, 2014August 5, 2014

For episode 3 of The Science Inside, we went to Kagiso, a township in Johannesburg’s West Rand, where the community has had enough. This is a story about Johannesburg’s earthquakes, it’s about the whole country’s water supply and its about the innocent children of Kagiso.

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Kagiso’s environmental and health hazard in pictures

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