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‘There needs to be a national disaster declared in the City of Joburg, and it's not a climate national disaster, it's an infrastructural disaster,’ says Dr Ferrial Adam, executive director of WaterCAN.

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‘Our view as the Minerals Council is that government can meet us halfway by incentivising exploration. That's what's happening in other jurisdictions, such as Canada and Australia, which are key mining jurisdictions,’ says Bongani Motsa, acting chief economist at the South African Minerals Council.

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