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Building materials lie exposed and no workers have been seen for months at the R300-million Polokwane Regional Wastewater Treatment Works project. Photos: Judas Sekwela
BLOOD RIVER

Sewage in the rivers as Polokwane water treatment project stalls

Polluted water is flowing into the Blood and Sand rivers

  • Judas Sekwela
2 min read
On this hill: Desmond D’Sa says his decades-long grassroots activism in Wentworth was ignited by the experience of being forcibly relocated there in 1966. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

Q&A Sessions: ‘Nobody will be able to stop us’ — Desmond D’Sa

Desmond D’Sa, winner of the coveted Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014, tells Paddy Harper how being forcibly removed from his home at the age of 10 taught him to fight for his…

  • Paddy Harper
8 min read