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HUGE illegal dumpsite in Port Shepstone

Illegal dumpsite in Port Shepstone uncovered Jan 2024

HUGE illegal dumpsite in Port Shepstone

HUGE illegal dumpsite in Port Shepstone: this is quite a remarkable achievement on behalf of whoever might be in charge of the beautiful – but abused, piece of land, right under Port Shepstone’s main CBD. Authorities have been notified and have promised to do something about it.

On-site meeting logged today 22 January 2024…let’s see how this goes…good luck Transnet (yes it is their land) UGU and RNM.

This could be a tourism haven – but Transnet refuse to allow positive developments here – only negative

We need to remove the inept from having the responsibility not to allow this type of thing to happen. It must have taken quite some time for the accrual of such tonnage of trash as is lying all over the beautiful and natural piece of land.

There are some spots where there is no space left to dump along the road!

This is what the mess is made up of…and is a glimpse into the minds of the kinds of people, that dump illegally like this.

Foodstuffs

The first item on the menu, which is so obviously so wrong, is the tonnes of fresh fruit and vegetables strewn all over the place.

How many people are starving?

Sacks of potatoes. Rice. As the commentator in the video says – “enough to make a pooitjie!”.

Building rubble

Freshly dumped. All over the place. Plus tonnes left over from recent stormwater repairs carried out in the Port Shepstone CBD.

Furniture

Toilets. Cupboards. Furniture. So much recoverable stuff. School desks?!

Plastic

Of every shape and form. Everywhere.

Body parts

Of vehicles and other mechanical wrecks. Tyres. Fans.

Asbestos

And all kinds of ceiling boards and dry-walling.

What can we be done?

It would be so straightforward, to set a patrol through this lovely area. Twice a day? Too much to ask? Eventually, if not recovered, all this pollution will be washed into the river. And into the ocean. Two of our most important natural resources, the ones we live off, generate an income from – the river – and the ocean – trashed.

And this is what we try to sell to our tourists. Pollution. Illegal dumping. Sewage. Dubiously covered up with Blue Flags.

Tourism

If we continue to neglect the experiences of our tourists – feeding them pollution and sewage rather than clean water, sun and sand, they will stop coming.

Full stop.

Lucky for some tourists…like this very happy guest out on Digby Smith’s boat recently. Way beyond the pollution and the brown water, on Protea Reef (about 5 miles out) he caught his best fish yet – a Giant Trevally, affectionately known to anglers as a ‘GT’.

Very happy chappy fishing with Captain Digby Smith on Protea Reef – way beyond the brown water

Umzimkulu Adrenalin in Port Shepstone will be available to get you out there and into the blue, as soon as the rains back off and floods ease. Floods may be the wrong term to be using since this is just the wet season being gentle with us.

So far!

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