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Margate FLASH FLOOD! With VIDEO

Margate FLASH FLOOD! In another mighty display of nature’s anger at the system, Margate on the lower south coast of KZN received an absolute hammering last night. With a fantastic accompanying light and sound show – the storm was extremely intense. But, not lucky for Margate, but lucky for the rest of us, the storm concentrated on the beautiful coastal town.

Update: lives have been lost and we sympathise with families and loved ones.

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The Umzimkulu River that runs onto the ocean at Port Shepstone (20 kms north) never even came down. It is calm and serene this morning (15 April 2024) as it has been for the past few weeks. The kingfish are back by the way. And the water is ginger beer, not too dirty at all for fishing.

No Swimming!

However, this water is absolutely no good for swimming in. It will get into your ears and give the most diabolical ear infection you could imagine. And if it gets up your nose you could end up with a staph infection in the brain. And if you get wounded and your open would comes into contact with this water, you might lose that limb.

This is because for all the years of load shedding, the Harding sewerage works upriver, has been failing. And failing. The sewage of the entire town runs into the Umzimkulwana River. Which runs into the Umzimkulu River right at the exact point where Port Shepstone’s drinking water is extracted from.

This sewage is untreated and contained in it are all the drugs and medicines that people have been taking. Anti-retrovirals. Oestregen. Anti-biotics…you name it. If you take it, it goes into the nearest river these days (directly due to load-shedding).

And in this same sewage, are also the pathogens and bad acting bacteria, viruses and the like. Which the drugs are meant to counter. But, and it’s a huge BUT. If you allow these evil pathogens to interact with the drugs that are meant to kill them, they will develop immunity. Becoming superbugs. Like the things that will get you in any public hospital here in South Africa. Superbugs develop in hospitals for the exact same reason. They are allowed to interact with the available medicines and become immune.

We are playing with fire by allowing any of this to continue. And the fact that load-shedding has been turned off, really begs the question…

Did the ANC do this on purpose all along? Or are they this inept?

And what really superbugs me, are the colluders. Who work with the devil and actively promote our coast as a tourist destination with safe bathing beaches. When they should be doing everything in their power to be rid of the ANC and the problems they have created since their rule.

Then we can promote tourism honestly.