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The arrival of the manganese rush in East London has sparked fears of hazardous dust pollution and run-off into the environment.While Transnet has worked hard to minimise the concerns, an environmental lawyer has suggested the state corporation is using a loophole in the SA Air Quality Act to avoid having to apply for an atmospheric emission licence (AEL) to conduct a listed activity, which would mean conducting an environmental impact assessment.
Traditional healer Zamile “Tree” Xobiso, 62, gardens furiously and creatively and with a great sense of social responsibility. There is a profound and surreal irony about where he does this — on a strip of ground between the edge of a huge, fully-kitted yet-to-start tomato tunnel agribusiness about which little is known although it is rumoured to be a BCM project, and a smart new fence in Ndevane, Qonce.
A blaze that engulfed a snack warehouse nearly shut down three other businesses in an industrial precinct in Arcadia, East London, on Sunday afternoon.
While Buffalo City Metro residents have mixed opinions about the increase of billboards peppering the city, the council says it is planning to erect more to add revenue to its coffers.
Cable theft has hit the East London beachfront once again and might mean extended darkness just as many are gearing up to enjoy themselves on the Eastern Beach these holidays.
Hetty was sweet, so-o-o sweet. I had just spent a few grand on sorting out a few glitches and the GS wizard had delivered her on a magic carpet. Until the gronk struck! On Tuesday I am grooving along cautiously, poer-poering down the old R102 past Lavender Blue approaching that skadonky bridge over the Quinera River.
A Buffalo City Metro councillor who received a death threat last week is still in hiding, fearing for his life, as the municipality has yet to make a commitment on his security. DA councillor Mawethu Kosani went into hiding after he received death threats in the form of bullets attached to a photo of him and his child.
Anger is building in Gonubie as the licensed private garden refuse and recycling site owned by businessman Garry Rieger threatens to shut on June 30 over nonpayment by Buffalo City Metro (BCM). Rieger said this was the only operating garden refuse site in Buffalo City, apart from Roundhill near Ntabozuko 41km away, and was only meant for use by Gonubie residents.
Buffalo City is sinking under heaps of putrefying trash, but the metro insists that a work-shopped plan of action is in place and only needs to be passed by the city council.