Swimming, surfing and fishing have been banned in Durban due to raw sewage in the water. Hundreds of thousands of litres of raw sewage is flowing into the port every hour. The eThekwini municipality’s health unit, on Thursday, ordered the City’s parks, recreation and culture department to ban all bathing on Durban’s beaches until further..
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Sh*thole country? – Swimming, surfing and fishing banned in Durban due to raw sewage in water – surf contest, been called to protect the safety and health of surfers
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#Sh*thole country! Vaal residents are living in their own waste – Raw sewage spills on the streets of Vaal
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For years, the river has been an environmental and health hazard with raw sewage flowing into surrounding areas from various points. Despite the deployment of specialised engineers from the South African National Defence Force, not all sewage sources have been stopped. The Vaal River clean-up project will receive another cash injection. “We are sitting at..
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Gauteng’s day “Zero” – Only one of the three water treatment plants in Gauteng is in working condition due to ignorance and no maintenance
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The Cape’s water crisis has been temporarily dismissed and now it is the Gauteng province that is facing a water and sewer crisis. The problem lies not only in the high consumption of water, (300 liters per day per person), but also in the dumping of raw sewage in rivers that flows to the storage..
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Raw sewage openly flows into Vaal River
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The Vaal River is in a terrible condition, with pollution and raw sewage causing people to get sick and fish to die, residents are urging the government to take action. With so many people potentially affected, the question remains – do people really know what’s in the river? According to the group Save the Vaal,..
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No wonder Trump said that we are a “sh*t hole country” – Uitenhage residents living on the banks of a river of sewage
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Residents of Duduza, Uitenhage, have declared their area a disaster zone. A river of sewage from a main sewer pipe runs past about a 100 RDP houses in KwaNobuhle. Duduza, one of the oldest areas in KwaNobuhle, is situated between Holomisa and Gunguluza. Resident Nothobile Sithebe said the stinking water has been running past her..
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