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2 months ago | 
bizcommunity.com | John Yeld |Wendell Roelf |Nokulunga Majola
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Source of the oil not yet confirmed, but locals suspect the wreck of the MV Ultra Galaxy. A drone image of oil at the main beach in Strandfontein on the West Coast. Photo: Tania Fouche / GroundUp About 40km of West Coast beaches have been polluted by an oil slick which also threatens sea bird colonies and the Oilfant’s River estuary.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
bizcommunity.com | Nokulunga Majola |Fred Kockott
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The eThekwini Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal has announced the prohibition of recreational and fishing activities from the Umngeni Estuary to the Blue Lagoon non-bathing beach. Image source: Zachary Andre from PexelsIn a statement issued on Wednesday, the municipality said the decision was in accordance with the Coastal Compliance Notice, issued by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE).
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Steve Kretzmann |Nokulunga Majola |Robert Erasmus
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Environment minister has lifted quantity restrictions on the city’s three marine outfalls. The City of Cape Town has been releasing more sewage into the ocean from its Hout Bay marine outfall than its discharge permit allows.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
sowetanlive.co.za | Nokulunga Majola |Tsoanelo Sefoloko
KwaZulu-Natal police are probing a case of fraud at an old age home whose water was cut off due to allegedly owing the eThekwini municipality of more than R2m for services. The municipality cut the water off at KwaMashu Christian Care Society home last week and residents are now forced to fetch water in buckets from rainwater tanks to wash and flush toilets.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nokulunga Majola |Tsoanelo Sefoloko
KwaMashu Christian Care Society has not been paying bills. Now water has been cut off. The water supply to the KwaMashu Christian Care Society home was cut last week after the home failed to pay water bills. The management of the home is in disarray and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development has given it 30 days to fix its financial problems or face deregistration. Police have launched a fraud probe.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
groundup.org.za | Nokulunga Majola |Tsoanelo Sefoloko
The water supply to the KwaMashu Christian Care Society home was cut last week after the home failed to pay water bills. The management of the home is in disarray and the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development has given it 30 days to fix its financial problems or face deregistration. Police have launched a fraud probe. Meanwhile elderly residents are having to fetch water in buckets to wash and flush toilets.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nokulunga Majola
Communal standpipes used to supply water to semi-rural areas of northern KZN For more than ten years, water trucks have been supplying water to households in the Mandeni Local Municipality, but sometimes the trucks do not arrive for weeks. In the meantime, people have to get water from streams or pay someone to drive about 30km to collect municipal water. The district municipality's new water supply scheme has been in the works since 2004.
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Aug 20, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Nokulunga Majola
GROUNDUP The power utility says the outages in KwaMaphumulo are necessary to protect transformers overloaded by illegal connections. Load reduction by Eskom is leaving households in the rural area of KwaMaphumulo, north of Durban, without electricity for hours at a time. Eskom says this is a safety measure to protect overloaded transformers. Residents of Maqumbi in KwaMaphumulo say they face frequent power outages, often for more than four hours at a time.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
bizcommunity.com | Nokulunga Majola |Steve Kretzmann |Lucas Nowicki
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The municipal sewage works is one of the main pollution sources. The Umgeni River mouth is a popular recreation area in Durban, but is chronically polluted by sewage. Photo: Nokulunga Majola / GroundUp The Umgeni River in Durban has sewage pollution at levels thousands of times above the maximum allowed amount. The municipality says this is because of overflows from sewers blocked by residents dumping foreign objects down the drains.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Nokulunga Majola
The municipal sewage works is one of the main pollution sources The Umgeni River in Durban has sewage pollution at levels thousands of times above the maximum allowed amount. The municipality says this is because of overflows from sewers blocked by residents dumping foreign objects down the drains. But one of the City's own sewage treatment works releases about five million litres of supposedly treated effluent into the river per day.
