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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...

The Buffalo City Metro has committed to filling 20,000 potholes by the end of the financial year, but budget problems mean it does not have the money to do the job properly.Mayor Princess Faku said the city was winning the war on potholes, while opposition parties said simply filling, and not fixing, potholes would be of little help.

“When I get there, I say ‘Where are mommy’s babies? I’ve got food for you,’ and they all fight to get to me.”For the past four years, Sandy Gower, 60, from Dorchester Heights, has been feeding wild hyraxes, popularly known as dassies, living in the stormwater drains of Beacon Bay.

Most non-SF literature puts forward a concept about the future by describing it, while good Science Fiction illustrates it. For example, both Snow Cras...

Rolling blackouts and the vandalism of sewer pump stations in East London are causing major sewage spillages that are polluting the city’s beaches and rivers.