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Save the Vaal Environment and the River Property and Safety Association's order has forced the Water and Sanitation Department to deal with raw sewage flowing into and polluting the Vaal River and its tributaries.
Save the Vaal Environment (Save) and the River Property and Safety Association (RPSA) have welcomed a court order declaring that the discharge of raw or inadequately treated sewage by the Emfuleni municipality into the Vaal River and Rietspruit was in contravention of various legislation and must be prevented.
Sewage surrounds Refengkgotso settlement, sometimes running through it and into farmlands, and then flowing into the Vaal Dam.
Government seems to never act in a preventative or cautionary manner, but is instead constantly reactionary, writes Mandy Wiener.
Government seems to never act in a preventative or cautionary manner, but is instead constantly reactionary, writes Mandy Wiener.