HOW TO KILL A RIVER
Dec 17, 2019
2 minutes
Field Notes by Janine Stephen
Pandora Long’s voice was full of horror. In August 2019, a giant tank of vegetable oil collapsed, felling another tankful of caustic soda at the Willowton Group factory in Pietermaritzburg. Containment barriers failed to stop 1,6 million litres of pollution spilling into the Buynespruit, which feeds into the Msunduzi, which feeds into the Umngeni River. It’s been described as the worst pollution
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