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Former environment minister Barbara Creecy.

Court rules against former environment minister over toxic air crisis

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

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
South Africa’s largest corporate polluters have worked persistently over the past two decades, in public and in private, to derail an effective climate policy response by the government, according to non-profit shareholder activism organisation Just Share.

Legal battle to stop deadly air

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

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The case challenges the government’s failure to enforce regulations that would protect people from air pollution in the Highveld Priority Area. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Landmark ‘Deadly Air’ case heads to supreme court of appeal

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

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read