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Lerato Mutsila’s Biography

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Lerato Mutsila is a multimedia journalist who loves politics and climate justice.

Lerato loves reporting on the latest developments in South Africa's socio-economic and political landscape.

Lerato is also a fellow of the 2021/2022 Young African Journalists Acceleration programme, which trained upcoming African journalists in climate journalism.

Lerato Mutsila’s Journalist Portfolio

AI predicts how Kruger and 4 other places will be destroyed by climate change

AI predicts how Kruger and 4 other places will be destroyed by climate change

The effects of climate change are arguably one of the most pressing issues of the modern world As global lead…

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Warming temperatures, climate financing and other reasons COP27 is important

Warming temperatures, climate financing and other reasons COP27 is important

The phrase "COP27 negotiations" has polluted news feeds over the last few days, with little explanation of wh…

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"Suspicious": SA concerned as Ramaphosa secures another R10bn at Cop27

"Suspicious": SA concerned as Ramaphosa secures another R10bn at Cop27

Rich western countries have committed more money to South Africa's just energy transition plan The Internatio…

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Meet 1 of the tenacious activists who stopped the SA-Russian nuclear deal

Meet 1 of the tenacious activists who stopped the SA-Russian nuclear deal

Makoma Lekalakala is a tenacious environmental activist from Soweto who, together with her colleague, Liz McD…

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Temba Water Woes - People Can't Drink Sludge - Water Security in South Africa

Temba Water Woes - People Can't Drink Sludge - Water Security in South Africa

Clean drinking water is an inalienable human right and easy access to it has resulted in many communities tak…

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Ep. 04 - Contextualizing Degrowth - Meeting Nina Treu

Ep. 04 - Contextualizing Degrowth - Meeting Nina Treu

Tafadzwa Ufumeli, a visual storyteller from Zimbabwe, and Lerato Mutsila, a journalist from South Africa sat …

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Gauteng’s rivers of filth — how broken pipes and sluggish justice poison waterways

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By Lerato Mutsila Verified
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ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Much like the rest of South Africa, the rivers and streams that flow through Gauteng are experiencing unprecedented levels of pollution. A broken sewer pipe in Pretoria is an indication of widespread systemic collapse. The Klip River in Gauteng is polluted by untreated sewage spilling from the Olifantsvlei wastewater treatment works. (Photo: Seth Thorne) Just off the banks of the Moreleta River in Pretoria East lies a sewerage pipe split in two.
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Gauteng’s rivers of filth — how broken pipes and sluggish justice poison waterways

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By Lerato Mutsila Verified
| Daily Maverick Verified
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Much like the rest of South Africa, the rivers and streams that flow through Gauteng are experiencing unprecedented levels of pollution. A broken sewer pipe in Pretoria is an indication of widespread systemic collapse. The Klip River in Gauteng is polluted by untreated sewage spilling from the Olifantsvlei wastewater treatment works. (Photo: Seth Thorne) Just off the banks of the Moreleta River in Pretoria East lies a sewerage pipe split in two.
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Elikya’s story: A documented migrant, yet her home was burnt down by vigilantes

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By Lerato Mutsila Verified
| Daily Maverick Verified
“We feel so betrayed. We feel lost most of the time. I feel scared. I feel very, very scared,” Elikya* told Daily Maverick, sitting at the kitchen table of a house she had fled to, following a xenophobic attack in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Elikya is a documented asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has lived in South Africa her entire life. Despite this fact, she was not spared from the most recent wave of xenophobia that has spread across the country.
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