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Cape Town residents battle to stop sewage flooding their homes

Heavy winter rains and an overflowing sewerage pipe have flooded areas of eThembeni in Khayelitsha. (David Harrison/M&G)
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Residents have to endure the overwhelming stench of raw sewage spilling from a blocked drain  as they struggle to prevent it from reaching their homes in the Ethembeni informal settlement in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.

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Eunice Stoltz
Eunice Stoltz is a general news reporter at the Mail & Guardian.

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