Environmental groups warn over marine life in Durban Harbour amid sewerage spill
A local environmental group says businesses and marine life is slowly disappearing from the Durban Harbour.
Rynhard du Plessis from the Save Durban Harbour and Beaches group, says sewage has become a norm at the harbour and at rivers flowing into the harbour.
He says urgent action is needed to recover what's left in the area.
"They can have two pumps for each plant or spare pumps for each plant and the same with the load shedding story, its easy, get a generator at each plant and have a generator back up."
A delegation from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in KwaZulu-Natal conducted an oversight visit at the Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station after the sewage spill into Durban Harbour last week.
Heinz de Boer says the party is considering taking legal action against the city.
"It has become abundantly clear that the eThekwini Municipality is quite incapable of managing it's ongoing sewage crisis and the ongoing population of the Durban Harbour despite assurances that Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station was fixed late last week, a toxic sludge of faeces stilled flowed in into the harbour on both Saturday and Sunday."
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