The quality of Jo’burg’s air came under the microscope this week, after the city of gold erupted in pockets of 24-carat stench.
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A nine-year-old girl in the UK is thought to be the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death by a coroner.
Air pollution has been dubbed “the new tobacco”, and wind conditions carry the polluted air west to Johannesburg and Pretoria.
London looked similar to Beijing this week, covered in a haze of pollution. The air quality was deem to have deteriorated to 10 on a 10-point-scale that measures air pollution. Here are some photos from 3 April, showing the scale of the pollution.
In the world’s biggest economies Johannesburg rates as the 7th most polluted air. The title of most polluted city goes not to Beijing as most would imagine, but the city ofLudhiana in India.