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Video: Interview with South African activist Bongani Mthembu

By Pontus Westerberg, 19 October 2011

Bongani Mthembu is from Umlazi, South Africa’s second biggest township. He is a campaigner with South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, and campaigns against industrial pollution in the area. He is working to educate ordinary South Africans about environmental injustice, and organising demonstrations at December’s UN climate talks in Durban, calling for solutions that also tackle poverty and inequality.

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