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 | Durban, South Africa: Oil Depot Inferno
October 4th, 2007
Hundreds of residents on the Bluff in Durban had to be evacuated after three tanks exploded at about 6.30 pm. The blaze could not be contained and by 10.30 pm had spread to six more tanks in the depot |
| Desmond D'Sa Honored by Sunday Times Profile in South Africa
by Brett Horner, Sunday Times
May 27th, 2003
Desmond D'Sa is Wentworth's own environmental terrier. For 13 years he has been a watchdog snapping at the heels of errant companies, particularly major oil refineries, who have polluted their way through decades of industrial expansion in south Durban. |
| Greenpeace activists storm refinery
by Farhana Ismail
September 4th, 2002
On the final day of the World Summit, Greenpeace activists did what governments, they say, failed to do. They stormed the Sapref refinery in Prospecton, gaining access to a bridge that crosses the Umlaas Canal to drop an anti-pollution banner. |
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