Ongoing protests have hit Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront and harbour area to decry the arrival of a Russian ship en route to Antarctica, accused of prospecting the climate-stressed Southern Ocean. Following Our Burning Planet’s investigations, the peaceful ...
by Tiara Walters, Daily MaverickSouth African protests against Russia’s Antarctic seismic ship echo around the world by Tiara Walters, Daily Maverick January 30, 2023 Sweeping across dark, blustery skies on Saturday morning, a rainbow framed Cape Town’s foggy seaboard end to end – but when a tug fleet motored out to meet a Russian ship on the horizon, the light display vanished in the mist.
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