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Hammanskraal residents have to go out and find water. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACTING PUBLIC PROTECTOR

Tshwane, government departments must work together for Hammanskraal water – Public Protector

The report found that a failure to upgrade the Rooiwal wastewater treatment works is a health risk to residents

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Plastic and other waste pollution along the Hennops River. The sewage pollution of the river affects the water quality of the Rietvlei and Hartbeespoort dams. File photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
CARIN BOSMAN

SA hit by a ‘tsunami of sewage’

The Green and Blue Drop reports show that more than 90% of the country’s wastewater treatment works are dysfunctional

  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
With dysfunctional sewage plants and failing water treatment plants such as Temba (above) South Africa has the perfect conditions for diseases such as cholera to thrive. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CHOLERA

Hammanskraal cholera: Time for ‘bullshitting’ is over, says mayor

The City of Tshwane will allocate R450 million over the next three years to fix the dysfunctional Rooiwal plant, which is polluting water in the area

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
Sludge flows from the Rooiwal treatment plant into the Apies River and irrigation dams. (Andy Mkosi)
APIES RIVER

Poisoned: Tshwane’s boreholes, taps and soil

Foul water runs out of Hammanskraal’s taps and farmers can’t grow crops because the City of Tshwane’s Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant contaminates the soil and groundwater

  • Sheree Bega
10 min read