BREAKING: SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER DECLARES WAR ON THE PLANET, HAILS THE RETURN OF “KING COAL”
In a speech that felt like a punch to the gut for the climate crisis, a top government minister just BET ON OUR DOOM. Gwede Mantashe, South Africa’s mineral resources minister, stood before a room of coal executives and made a terrifying declaration: “King Coal is back.”
Forget your solar panels. Forget the floods and the fires. In a keynote address dripping with defiance, Mantashe painted coal—the planet’s biggest polluter—as a HERO. He called it “indispensable” and framed its continued burning as a moral duty to provide power and jobs. This isn’t just talk. This is a BLUEPRINT for climate disaster.
The evidence is in his own words. He cited global data showing coal demand GROWING. He pointed to new coal plants being built in China, India, and RIGHT HERE IN SOUTH AFRICA. While the world begs for a transition, his government is investing billions to “extend the life” of this deadly industry with pie-in-the-sky carbon capture projects. Who wins? The mining bosses in that room. Who loses? EVERYONE ELSE.
But the real scandal is in the waste. Mantashe ADMITTED South Africa dumps over 25 million tonnes of toxic coal ash every year—a massive environmental time bomb. Yet he spins this poison as a “unique opportunity,” a source of rare minerals. He’s not solving a crisis; he’s creating a new one for profit.
They are re-branding extinction as “innovation.” They are prioritizing profit over survival. And they are doing it with a smile, telling miners their jobs depend on it.
This is more than policy. This is a declaration that some lives—and our collective future—are expendable.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
