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Women sort coal at the Blaauwbosch mining site. Some of them work as teams with their husbands who do the more dangerous work of digging for coal with pick axes and shovels.
It is these people who will be the worst affected by the phasing out of coalPHOTO: lucas ledwaba / mukurukuru mediaIn 2017, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán declared Hungary-born US billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations persona non grata, which effectively barred them both from ever entering the country again. In 2015, Russia outlawed “undesirable” foreign or international organisations that allegedly undermined Russia’s security, defence or constitutional order.
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