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There is no denying that air pollution is an issue in Joburg – as proved by a report on the city’s air quality, which used data collected from 250 000 exhaust measurements taken at 11 locations between July and September last year.
It is comforting in a bizarre way that, while Joburg’s streets are potholed like a World War I battlefield, traffic lights don’t work and vehicle law enforcement is conspicuous by its absence, we at least have someone who is director of the city’s “air quality and climate change”.
The Clean Air Fund stated that Johannesburg in 2019 recorded an estimated 5 300 premature deaths due to air pollution, with the number expected to double by 2030.
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