Despite Ekurhuleni spending R2.8-million on a sewer line to prevent further damage to a pump station, raw waste has contaminated a wetland
Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane’s leadership is being dissolved due to collapsing service delivery
The Vaal River is the lifeblood for almost 50% of the South African population yet at its banks around the Lekwa municipality, sewage flows into it
During the last national elections in 2014, Bekkersdal, west of Johannesburg, was the site of protests, sparked by service delivery woes
Two years after government promised to solve the problem, sewage sits in yards as pumps stand idle.
A breakdown in Vaal Dam sewage management is polluting the water for 10-million people in Gauteng while locals live next to streams of human waste.
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/ 6 November 2009
Concerns are growing that faulty municipal water treatment works that leak sewage are destroying South Africa’s rivers.