Poorer communities bear the brunt of the air pollution and environmental crisis.
Severe weather, El Niño events and climate change are dominating the headlines but while climate change affects everyone, South Africans do not experience its impacts equally.
Research indicates that environmental hazards such as air pollution, flooding, drought and extreme weather disproportionately affect poorer communities, which often have fewer resources to adapt and recover.
This World Environment Day, we put a spotlight on the country's inequality. Not inequality of resources or financial - the inequality of environmental issues.
According to the World Bank, South Africa remains one of the world's most unequal societies despite progress in reducing poverty, with high levels of unemployment and persistent infrastructure and service delivery gaps continuing to affect millions of people.
