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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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Staphylococcus Warning KZN December 2023

Staphylococcus Warning by The Sardine News

Staphylococcus Warning December 2023

Staphylococcus Warning December 2023: it has happened again. A popular and highly experienced Southern KZN angler was recently struck down. At Seapark. He was on the rocks, where he has spent most of his life. Got a tiny cut on his foot. Happened a thousand times before. Except this time, the smell of the ANC was in the air.

Loadshedding

The sewage was pouring raw and untreated, into the ocean, just nearby. Our guy smelt the sewage. But he was on a mission trying to catch live bait.

He has now lost his foot.

This happened lightning-fast. Staphylococcus is mean stuff. You need to be vigilant at ALL times. Clean and disinfect any cut or scratch thoroughly. As it happens. Especially now at this time of the year. That the rains have come. And all the sewage in and around dysfunctional Harding is swept right to here. By the Umzimkulwana River.

Load-shedding is manslaughter now. It’s a crime against every single one of us. Who used to use the ocean, rivers and dams, for recreation as kids and even adults. And for supplying us, the population, with clean drinking water.

What load-shedding has done, and therefore directly the ANC, is turned the entire country into an open toilet. With deadly results.

Check this out…

Upriver

Since everybody’s attention, including the Public Protector and the President, has been brought to the Harding problem, NOTHING has improved. ZERO. Sewage flows in the streets. Into the stormwater drains. And into the Farmers Dam and the Umzimkulwana River, on its merry way, laden thick with eColi and all sorts of pathogens. And bugs that have been festering in the Farmer’s Dam through the dry season. All of that, is on it’s merry way to the beaches of the KZN South Coast. Right now. Just as the hapless ANC victims – the tourists, arrive. To ZERO warnings.

This has been happening for many years now.

Blue Water Only

Do not go in murky water. No matter what beach you go to, if the water is even slightly discoloured, stay out of it. Luckily there are some beaches without pathogen-infested river mouths too close by. Like Umzumbe. And Hibberdene. Those beaches are the ones in the right location in the current and on the coast, to be reliably cleaner than all the others.

Uvongo and Margate, are right in the firing line. The sewage comes out of the rivers, mixes lekker in the waves, and gets taken south by the prevailing Agulhas Current. The onshore blows, and this contaminated water is pushed into the bays and coves (Uvongo in particular, has a very unfortunate geographical structure where this bad water gets trapped in that cove). RIght onto the unsuspecting tourists who receive ZERO warning about the dire state of the ocean right now as the rainy season fires up. Underberg, Hardind, Umzimkulu – ALL discharging straight into the Umzimkulu and Umzimkulwana Rivers. The same rivers our drinking water comes from?!

There are ZERO signs warning anyone anywhere. And then we have organisations and individuals far more engaged in the profit that they can make from the tourists, than caring for the tourist’s well-being and health. Advertising Blue Flag beaches and the like. Yet in the meantime, people are getting sick more and more. From exposure to the ANC government failures. A season or two back, I had 23 of 24 guests in hospital. From swimming in Uvongo Lagoon. Not one warning sign. Not even the lifeguards cared or bothered to warn these victims.

Imagine you go to a lodge someplace. And you head for the pool. But the pool is poisoned…and nobody warns you?!

Fast treatment

Staphylococcus is mean. Sometimes even completely resistant to treatment (MRSA). You need to clean any wounds, no matter how small, properly. Scrub. Disinfect. As and when they happen.

It is so complicated in that we all have Staphylococcus on our skins and in our membranes. All of us. But it’s when too much Staphylococcus gathers together, that it takes over the delicate balance that the body has. In effect, we can actually get sick from our own Staphylococcus. If we don’t wash. Treat wounds properly.

So you get a lesion. Your own Staphylococcus is there already but checked by the immune system. Then you overdose the wound with sewage-born Staphylococcus. And there you have it. You are in big trouble already. This stuff is going to try kill you. Seek treatment fast!

You literally don’t have time to do anything else except care for your wound. Minutes make a difference.

And it’s not limited to here in KZN. It’s wherever there is failed sewage infrastructure or too many animals defecating near or in the rivers. Wherever too much sewage is discharged unchecked into the environment. That’s where Staphylococcus is waiting for you.

Loadshedding does this. Every day. Every town. In the whole country.

Attempted manslaughter at the very least. And grand misconduct considering ZERO consideration for the visiting tourists. The lifeblood of our economy.

And fellow South Africans.