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Congratulations to Promise Mabilo and the entire Vukani Environmental Movement -VEM for this great achievement and recognition. Promise is an alumni of the groundWork Environmental Justice School and has been and remains one of the main activists at the center in struggle for energy democracy and an inclusive just transition for all.
Promise Mabilo does not need an air-quality monitor to know when the pollution in Emalahleni is especially bad.
In the coal country of South Africa’s Mpumalanga Highveld, she can feel it when she breathes.
“Sometimes you feel like you are breathing burning tires,” said Mabilo, an environmental justice activist who has lived in the region for more than two decades. “You can feel that today is not right to be outside.”
