Local children protest MTN mast
They might be small but they have a big request for multinational mobile telecommunications giant MTN – please save our brains!
On Friday last week Dolphin Coast Pre-Primary school pupils protested peacefully against the construction of a cellular mast just 30 metres away from their school.
Pupils carried posters pleading with MTN to stop construction altogether and asking residents to “say no to the MTN cell mast”.
Principal Jenny Keegan said they are concerned about the health risks associated with the EMF radiation given off by the mast.
“We have 140 children in our care and nobody informed us about the mast before construction started. We signed a petition against it but this seems to have been ignored. Signatures of some of our parents were removed from the petition because they do not live around here, which is ridiculous because their children are affected.”
MTN halted work on the mast on Michell Street off Jacqueline Drive last month after receiving several complaints from affected residents (‘Mixed signals for MTN mast’, Courier, August 7).
At the time MTN said it was still in talks with the KwaDukuza municipality to get permission to build the mast, located at the Sembcorp Siza Water LEA reservoir.
Jacqueline Drive resident Sherenne Coston, who spearheaded the petition, has invited residents to a series of interviews by scientists and doctors on the issue, on Wednesday, September 18.
For more information contact her on 082 367 3667 or email health.e.me@gmail.com.
