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The data “corrections” were made on Tuesday, 9 April 2024, several days after large numbers of marine and freshwater fish washed up dead in the estuary and along popular Umhlanga swimming beaches over the weekend.
EThekwini municipality's weekly testing is more frequent than any other city and allows for quick detection of unsafe beaches to make quick interventions, says city manager Musa Mbhele.
EThekwini Municipality has urged the public to refrain from any bathing activities near the Ohlange estuary mouth, north of Durban.
In the directive, titled “Failure to take reasonable measures to contain or prevent a situation which causes pollution of the water resource”, senior water regulation official Colin Zwane said he had reasonable grounds for believing that UPL had contravened the provisions of the National Water...
EThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda says they have sorted out some of the infrastructure issues that led to the contamination of the city's beaches.