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Stench over Johannesburg sparks government probe

9th June 2022

By: Bloomberg

  

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South Africa’s Environment Ministry is investigating a “stench” that has settled over Gauteng province, which includes the commercial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria, this week.

The smell, which in the past has been caused by high levels of sulphur dioxide pollution, sparked speculation about its origin on social media and whether it’s floating in from Mpumalanga, a province to the east. Mpumalanga is the site of most of the country’s coal-fired power plants, as well as a giant petrochemical complex owned by Sasol.

Forecaster Gauteng Weather warned that the pollution could be harmful and urged caution.

It also tied the origin to Mpumalanga.

The department “is working with environmental and air-quality officials in Mpumalanga, Gauteng, Limpopo and North West to determine the cause of the stench,” it said in a statement on Thursday. It needs to be determined “whether prevailing wind and weather conditions have contributed to the smell traveling over a long distance from another province, as was the case when a similar incident was reported in 2021,” it said.

Edited by Bloomberg

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