South Africa's informal miners fight for their future in coal's...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : According to Hlatshwayo, a "just transition" to green energy requires that ordinary people also have access to South Africa's mineral wealth.
49% : And while most of South Africa´s electricity comes from Mpumalanga, locals say they have benefited little from large-scale, formal mining and fear the transition to green energy might leave them behind again. - 'Artisanal' or 'illegal'? - "Down the shaft, it´s pitch black.
48% : Activist Philani Mngomezulu, working in the same garden, pitched in: "Just one community mine, in the entire history of mining in this town -- that's all we're fighting for!" While most of South Africa's electricity comes from Mpumalanga, locals say they have benefited little from large-scale, formal mining and fear the transition to green energy might just leave them behind again The men said that mining would continue to exist even after the phaseout from coal, including for critical minerals needed for products from solar panels to electric cars.
45% : Only a few tree trunks propped up the slab of stone forming the roof of the entrance to the mine, a hole in the slope of a gutted hill abandoned by a mining company in the eastern Mpumalanga province scarred by decades of coal extraction.

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