Category: Report

Water WOES! New YouTube channel logs sewage and water leaks in SA

Water WOES! New YouTube channel logs sewage leaks in SA: we at The Sardine News understand that sewage is not so lekka on a fishing channel. But we have long been protectors of the environment and unfortunately the sewage issues we face directly affect the fishing. And the diving. And even surfing.

Here is yet another notice this year – the eThekweni Municipality put out another warning against going in or even near the ocean waters, in some places. This is two weeks old but it shows the pattern of municipal dumping sewage and ecoli levels on the beaches.

Ecoli Warning

“16 SEPTEMBER 2022

CITY CLOSES SOME BEACHES

The City would like to advise the public that following the latest round of testing it has taken a decision to close some beaches with immediate effect as the water quality does not meet acceptable standards.

The following beaches are closed: Brighton, Ansteys, Point, Ushaka, Addington, South, Wedge, North, Bay of Plenty, Battery, Country Club Thekwini, Laguna, Baggies and Reunion beaches. All water activities at these beaches are banned.

Umhlanga main; Umdloti; Westbrooke and Bronze beaches in the northern region remain closed.

Beaches that remain open include Toti, Pipeline, Warner, Winklespruit; and Umgababa beaches.

The Municipality continues to test water quality at beaches on a regular basis and reacts in line with those results.”

eThekweni Municipality

Water WOES

It sounds a lot better if you say it in Afrikaans. But it works just fine in English too.

Both interpretations are correct and sum up the feeling all over South Africa right now. Desperate. But really angered by now! There is no segregation here in this camp. We are all fighting against the tyranny of the ANC. Together in this community.

This project/channel is just a little something that we can do. And was inspired by Memory Pieterse of IndepenceCA. Who is doing way more than her fair share of taking UGU Municipality on. With a class-action lawsuit! Amongst many other valiant causes.

Learn all about IndepenceCA right here…

IndependanceCA

There should not be one person in Africa that goes to bed hungry, our vision is for all to be financially independent.
We are a platform for like-minded people to work together irrespective of religion, colour or political affiliation.
We embark on various activities to share information, our only rule is to treat each other with respect.
At present, our core activities include the Africa Food Drive, to Redress the Union of SA in 1910 and the water woes in South Africa.

Support us through volunteering your services, affiliation with your organisation and donations, both financially or other goods.

Independence Commission Africa website is independenceca.org

Water Woes Channel

And in the meantime…welcome to the channel!

Water Wors is hier

Submit your videos to Memory Pieterse +27 72 761 1736 or Sean Lange at +27793269671.

The 2022 Marlin Season has fired up

The 2022 Marlin Season has fired up: with this very first post by the crew of FishBazaruto.com. As they enjoy the beginning of what promises to be another cracker fishing season in those deep purple waters.

Spoiler alert!

Duarte and crew are fully-booked for this 2022 marlin season. Unless there is a last-minute cancellation or something crazy, it’s back-to-back bookings. And no time for more.

However, you can talk to us about next year. Get in touch with me Sean here on umzimkulu@gmail.com and +27793269671. Or click on over to the FishBazaruto website. Use the Rates and Contact page to drop off an enquiry. Duarte is way out of cell range every day so expect a little delay.

Enjoy the article below, from the FishBazaruto.com blog…marlin, sailfish, wahoo, yellowfin, GTs, JObfish, Queenfish…

2022 Marlin Season kicks off with FishBazaruto’s first scorecard posted

FishBazaruto.com on YouTube

We have a playlist of action for you to enjoy below. Shot by Duarte and crew in and around Bazaruto Island waters. YOu can really get a feel for what it’s like by watching and feeling the action on video. Please Like, Subscribe, Comment and Share!

Marlin fishing in South Africa

We might not be as pretty as Bazaruto, but we do have some serious concentrations of fish here along the eastern seaboard of South Africa.

We have the screaming blue Agulhas Current come right up against the continental shelf here too. Which in some places is real close. Like a few kilometres close! These are the places I like to fish for billfish. Where we don’t have to travel miles and miles and miles just to get to the fishing grounds.

The black marlin arrive here much the same time as they up north in Bazaruto. Most of them are notably swimming north. Presumably to the breeding concentration that Bazaruto Island hosts each year this time.

Sodwana Bay is most likely the most fun of all our marlin fishing destinations. Sporting hectic features that show a lot of similarity with the Mozambique hotspots. Deep canyons and steep drop-offs. Strong currents. Bait forced up to the surface.

Richards Bay opens up a huge expanse of water. They got some huge boats there too. But its quite far to the grounds which needs to be factored in weather-wise each time.

Durban is similar in that the 80m line and then the continental shelf is miles offshore.

Shelly Beach features a handy small craft harbour with tractors throwing boats in the shore break quite effectively. The current and the shelf are a mere 20 minutes away from that same shore break. This is a place that holds heaps of potential with a few 100kg yellowfin tuna featuring in the mix out there. Along with many marlin. Closer in there is the formidable Protea Reef with its steady supply of tuna for bait.

If you feel like sampling these crazy waters, contact Sean on umzimkulu@gmail.com or +27793269671 and we can put something together for you.

For this 2022 marlin season!

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Antibiotics, antiretrovirals, estrogen and drug-resistant pathogens now available in an estuary near you

Antibiotics, antiretrovirals, estrogen, and drug-resistant pathogens now available in an estuary near you: KZN especially pay attention. And vote accordingly.

https://youtu.be/Y-h9hjZxv2Y

Transcription of Professor Anthony Turtons narrative from this Video on YouTube…

“When looking at the human population growth trajectory over the last hundred of thousands of years we are taken by two very important facts. The first is that the human growth population trajectory was very flat until the Industrial Revolution. Once the Industrial Revolution happened it literally unleashed a series of technological possibilities and processes. That propelled the human population into very rapid growth.

But this was accelerated by the second factor in the 1960s when antibiotics became commonplace. Prior to that antibiotics were only discovered between the first and second world wars and they were mainstream during WWII. They became publicly accessible on a wide scale only in the 1960s. And once we had antibiotics of course then human life was less at risk. Because ordinary infections that would normally have killed people, could now be brought under control. At a very very early stage. And that propelled human population growth into an exponential trajectory.

However on the wastewater side what we also need to remember is that all drugs that are taken including your antibiotics, but also antiretrovirals and antidepressants, hormone replacement medications such as estrogen – all of that comes back in the return flow in rivers and its only because of the Industrial Revolution that we now have massive amounts of sewage return flows that all go back into our rivers and eventually accumulate in the estuaries. And those sewage return flows are laden with

• antibiotics.
• with antiretrovirals.
• with oestrogen and oestrogen mimikers.
• with a range of other medications

All of which are now starting to generate the next generation of multi-drug-resistant pathogens.

So it’s not inconceivable that in the very near future we go to start seeing things come out of our estuaries in particular. Where we get drug-resistant pathogens and we starting to see early evidence of that now in the form of something known as Necrotizing Fasciitis which is the most technical word for flesh-eating bacteria.

And we start to see this happen in our oceans and we already had some cases in the Umhlanga Rocks area. We are also starting to see it in our lagoons. We’ve had one or two cases in the lagoon areas. And we also see it inland in some of our rivers. We’ve had a few cases now in the Vaal River system.

And in all cases, these bacteria survive in saline water that gets contaminated by sewage and of course these bacteria these pathogens are now proliferating in the presence of antiretroviral and antibiotics so they are becoming multidrug-resistant. This is a huge problem that we are going t have to start setting our sights on – over the next decade.

Because this is the timeline that it’s likely to hit us.”

By Professor Anthony Turton

More at https://thesardine.co.za.

The water is a lot cleaner down here in Port Shepstone where you can come fishing with https://umzimkuluadrenalin.co.za.

The Umbilo River: death by turd

The Umbilo River that runs right through Durban has been systematically destroyed by raw untreated sewage flowing directly from the Pinetown waste management system into its once pristine and beautiful flowing waters.

Death by Turd

From Pinetown, it carries its new payload – the very many diseases, bugs, viruses, pathogens, and toxins that come from raw sewage, down towards and finally into – the ocean. This river used to carry a payload of shrimps, prawns, crabs, fishies, birds, buck, otters…

Today you will find exactly none of that anywhere near the Umbilo River.

What you will find, are more humans. Who use this water to wash and bathe in. They use it to cook food. They use it to water their little veggie gardens. These are the forgotten ones. The ones that the ANC does not care about. They can’t vote anyway.

And in this water, a gift from the ANC – are the substances that kill. Maim. Cripple. Flesh-eating bacterias. Superbugs. Professor Anthony Turton addresses these highly toxic threats in the accompanying video.

It is not chemical spills. Or factories breaking the rules. It’s the ANC crippling the country day by day. Month by month. By being corrupt and ineffective against any community challenges. Like sewage. Water. And electricity.

With an endless emergency budget – there is no excuse for Durban Waste being out-off-operation since April. As admitted by Ethekweni Waste Management’s very own – Dave Wilson. On radio.

You can read all about that situation with an analysis of Wilson’s radio remarks at https://thesardine.co.za/ethekweni-municipality-issues-warning-about-its-own-incompetence/.

Fish Kills

The fish kills in that story can be tied directly to the Umbilo and the other rivers that flow through Durban to the sea. It does not take a team of investigators to add together these particular two and twos.

The crux is this. None of our sewage water treatment plants are operating properly. And the infrastructure – the pipes and things – are neglected and left to rot by the ruling party.

Yes. The ANC. Such an easy enemy to hate. After they won their little violent struggle and necklacing war (in which they killed thousands of people by burning tyres around their necks) – they then took this beautiful and profitable country to its knees.

And still are, to this day.

This is what we fought against

Lost our lives for. Our brothers. Fathers. Cousins. Uncles.

We were fighting a revolutionary enemy. The ANC. They were the terrorists at the time – blowing up power stations and wallowing in their claim-to-fame as the necklacing specialists.

John Scheepers, who submitted the Umbilo River video material to us, was one of these young fighting men. And as much as he might have been ideologically puzzled at this mission so early bestowed upon in his life, to be a soldier, to fight the enemy – John now is understanding exactly why the ANC was the foe back then. And still is very much the enemy right now.

Some of their most recent achievements:

• USD 4 000 000
• turned the country into a toilet – river by river
• Failed state/captured state
• corrupt and lazy public servants (not all, but definitely most)
• Firing of Ezimvelo and hiring of the incorrigible DAFF – laying waste to our fish and environment
• load shedding 40% up (read all about that here)
• support Russia’s illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine (read all about that here)

This list goes on and on…

Beaches open. Beaches closed. Repeat.

Beaches of Durban: And the advertising bucks keeps rolling in for the mainstream media.

It’s the perfect cycle of…

1. The city dumps a shit tonne of raw untreated sewage into the ocean via an estuary due to its incapacitated municipality made up of ineffective union-run staff
2. Get the excitement up with bad news reporting of the ecoli levels in the surf
3. Report that the beaches are closed
4. Wait until the sewage is washed away by the currents
5. Report that the beaches are open
6. Repeat

Every time this happens, the mainstream media simply use the ecoli situation as a cash cow. It’s a very emotional subject and gets the clicks. And therefore the advertising bucks.

Investigative journalism

Nowhere are any reasons given, or investigations into why. No solutions or recourses are ever discussed. It’s just business as usual. Complete acceptance by the mainstream media and the decision to completely ignore searching for the truth.

It is everywhere

And it’s not just the Umgeni and the once idyllic Blue Lagoon. Nope, it’s also Amanzimtoti. Port Shepstone. Margate. These are the places that we have proof of. Well documented in video and stills. This is currently our strategy. To document with as much information – each and every transgression against a river or estuary.

Watch this space for another river dead by eutrophication…the Umbilo, as it meanders through Pinetown, is drowned in raw sewage. A big thanks to John who lives nearby and has brought this to our attention. Enabling us to document and log as evidence for when the prosecutions start.

Mainstream media failure

My point is only that all these resources, as in the media, should be reporting exactly what is going on. Not just the end result for a steady stream of advertising bucks.

This is the actual story (qualified by Professor Anthony Turton) and you can read all about it right HERE. Including a brief analysis of the pathetic excuses offered by senior Durban Waste staffer and salary taker David Wilson.

Then you can also read about the tactics that Durban Waste management have used against their new boss. As soon as they realised he was onto them and their evil ways, they got him silenced with a defamation suit. Two weeks into his new job. Tasked with cleaning up the mess. He now knows exactly how subversive and slimy the people are that he is dealing with. I wish you all the best pal.

eThekwini boss alleged to have apologised after calling staff ‘bastards’

You can’t make this shit up.

Please pop on over to our YouTube Channel where you can find the many videos we have made about the current disastrous raw sewage situation in KZN. And luckily…some fun and good news aswell.

You can also click on over to Umzimkulu Adrenalin where you can get yourself out in amongst the fish and the action. We have self-catering accommodation and houseboats down here on the Umzimkulu Estuary (the last free-flowing river in KZN – read all about that here). Or simply get in touch with me Sean on WhatsApp +27 79 326 9671 anytime.