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sewage treatment

Barbara Creecy chides City of Cape Town over ‘inadequate’ public engagement on sewage pumped into sea

South Africa

Barbara Creecy chides City of Cape Town over ‘inadequate’ public engagement on sewage pumped into sea

By Steve Kretzmann

Deadly cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal was ‘just a matter of time’

South Africa

Deadly cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal was ‘just a matter of time’

By Steve Kretzmann and Chris Gilili

'A tsunami of human waste' - Half of SA’s sewage treatment works are failing, says report

South Africa

'A tsunami of human waste' - Half of SA’s sewage treatment works are failing, says report

By Steve Kretzmann

Our health in brief — part two: What are municipalities doing?

South Africa

Our health in brief — part two: What are municipalities doing?

By Charles Simkins

South Africa’s rivers of sewage: More than half of SA’s treatment works are failing

South Africa

South Africa’s rivers of sewage: More than half of SA’s treatment works are failing

By Steve Kretzmann, Nompumelelo Mtsweni, Peter Luhanga and Nombulelo Damba