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The Western and Eastern Cape provinces are braced for two potentially catastrophic days of deluges, gales and a drawback of the ocean.

The ocean was expected to draw back dramatically on Sunday night amid wild and unpredictable weather which swept over the Eastern Cape on the weekend. A huge swell of 8.3m containing massive amounts of wave energy is expected to peak on Thursday. A cut-off low-pressure cell south of Cape Town was the cause of the rain and wind, but the warning of a “negative” sea surge was a new addition to the disaster warnings.

Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi...

I can’t quite put my finger on it. I am trying to marshal my scattered thoughts on the perfect storm that tore up our coastline last weekend. The geography, oceanography and climatology of it is one thing but I cannot help feeling like it is a barometer or a metaphor or foreshadowing of greater maladies.

River and nature protection groups are starting to embrace East London’s Tidy Towns movement which is firing up across the metro.