at the university of johannesburg victor monica spent years studying the human cost of the environmental pollution from respiratory illnesses and skin rushes to london seas and cancer the annual death toll shockingly high. rate calculated to be somewhere in the region of $2200.00 tribute to all deaths that people who died prematurely that wouldn't have died if they were not. exposed to to call this pollution in the entire province as a patchwork of power stations with 12 huge coal fired facilities south africa still gets 90 percent of its electricity from coal but many big corporations are now selling off their minds to smaller firms as coles reputation continues to worsen. but south africa is continuing to build new coal fired power stations might the massive plant 19 german firms are helping with the construction while the german bank is involved in the financing the facility belongs to the state power company nascar we wanted to ask about environmental standards filter systems and how much water it will use but eskom declined to speak to us. south africa's environment ministry is look