GOVERNMENT WARNING: PEOPLE ARE RUBBING CANCER-CAUSING TOXIC SLUDGE ON THEIR SKIN—AND OFFICIALS ARE BEING ASKED TO HAND IT OUT.
This isn’t a horror movie plot. It’s happening NOW in communities across South Africa.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment dropped a bombshell on Friday: toxic transformer oil, which can be packed with cancer-linked PCBs, is being MISUSED by the public. Shocking discussions with municipalities revealed deadly misconceptions: some believe this industrial poison can TREAT ARTHRITIS.
These beliefs have led to DIRECT REQUESTS for the oil from municipal officials. Let that sink in. People are asking the government for poison to rub on their bodies.
PCBs are a man-made nightmare. Banned globally but PERSISTING in old electrical equipment, they are linked to devastating health problems—cancer, reproductive damage, neurological disorders. They are classified under the international Stockholm Convention as some of the world’s most dangerous pollutants.
Yet a DEADLY IGNORANCE persists. While the country has rules to phase out these chemicals, and a national project is supposedly helping municipalities eliminate them, the public remains dangerously in the dark. The department admits awareness is LIMITED, even as the 2025 global deadline to eradicate PCB equipment looms.
Who benefits from this silence? The systemic failure spans decades—from the industries that used these poisons for generations in mining, power, and manufacturing, to the sluggish bureaucracy now scrambling to clean up a disaster they should have prevented. The regulations from 2014 clearly haven’t reached the people who need them most.
While officials “intensify efforts” to educate, ordinary people are right now seeking out a chemical weapon for relief.
The system has failed so completely that citizens are begging for their own poison.
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
