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OBITUARY: Environmental justice warrior Desmond D’Sa returns to Mother Earth
Herman Lategan · Daily Maverick
Published 3 Nov 2026, 6:30 am·just now·1 min read
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Forced from his childhood home under apartheid, he spent half a century organising the people of Wentworth against the industrial giants that poisoned their neighbourhood. He closed a toxic landfill, won the Goldman Environmental Prize and never stopped fighting.
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