Michael Gaade News Today

Poorly maintained infrastructure — much of it more than 100 years old — dysfunctional wastewater treatment plants, fraud, corruption and collapse of local governance mean taps in many towns and villages have either run dry or have undrinkable water. Impact of corruption in the Department of...

Residents say inoperative wastewater treatments pollute the Vaal River and the sewage which has been flowing into the it had turned into sludge.

We can’t breathe, say residents who have to contend with Vaal River’s suffocating stench By Manyane Manyane Share Johannesburg - Resident Michael Gaade says for the Vaal River to be clean again, authorities should start by clearing the Rietspruit River and inoperative wastewater treatments which have over time also added to the pollution and created a health hazard for the communities in the Vaal area. Carrying his pool net, Gaade, who lives in Rietspruit, a plot on the river banks of...