Toxic dust from an abandoned mine coupled with Covid-19 is a tinderbox - The Mail & Guardian

Michael Moloufi is “so, so scared”. “Many people are dying of Covid-19 in Snake Park. Almost every day we’re burying people,” he says.

Last week, Gauteng Premier David Makhura linked “cluster outbreaks” on mines, and people moving between them and where they live, to the Covid-19 infections in the western part of Soweto. Local activist Tiny Dlamini agrees. She scolds a group of youngsters for not wearing masks as they walk by. Last month, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States underscored the relationship between “long-standing systemic health and social inequities” and Covid-19 infection in the US.

Matlola says nobody has visited Snake Park to talk about the virus. “They don’t come. They don’t care about us,” she says, her arms folded.“It scares me. The only thing I know I must do is pray that God will help us — protect us.”

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