Women's view on environmental pollution in South Durban, South Africa.

What is it about?

Th.e different views of black and white women living adjacent an oil refinery in South Durban are compared showing that black women are more active in social movements to reduce the pollution, while white women are more individualist with little action to change the situation

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Why is it important?

The findings show that previous apartheid legislation located black communities adjacent the noxious oil refinery, they have been more oppositional to the environmental injustice of their situation. This demonstrates the racial differences between the actions of women in relation to pollution.

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