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After being threatened with legal action by Section 27 and the Khiba School in Kuruman to force various departments of governments to act on its own findings, the Department of Labour has finally acted in the interest of teachers under its scope and issued a notice to the school to deal with the Asbestos contamination or face permanent closure.  The Departments of Mineral Resources, Education and Environment and Tourism have still not deemed it important enough to act. The question of Asbestos exposure is however a much larger and exceedingly deadly humanitarian crises facing South Africa and one which requires government to account and to act immediately. The first recorded commercial mining of amphibole asbestos began in the early 1880s. By the mid-nineteenth century, the South African industry produced 97% of the world's crocidolite and asbestos constituted one of South Africa's most valuable base minerals. When the last amphibole mine closed a century later,...