A workforce on site at Oya – now at the centre of claims of visa violations, worker deaths and serious misconduct.
Graphic: Sharlene Rood, Graeme Raubenheimer/News24. Images: Oya Energy
A global Chinese construction giant and its staff overseeing a gargantuan wind and solar farm in the Karoo are facing mounting allegations of not only breaches of health and safety regulations, but also environmental violations and even sexual harassment.
Specialist climate journalist Ethan van Diemen has spent many months investigating the tsunami of claims swirling around Sinohydro’s Oya Hybrid Energy Project outside Sutherland in the Northern Cape.
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Later, in our regular segment, On This Day in SA History, the late former AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche was sentenced to prison for trying to kill a black worker.
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