, though its mayor blamed challenges in infrastructure maintenance and a lack of skills for the environmental failure., the Mpumalanga municipality’s mayor, Nhlakanipho Zuma, admitted the pollution may have occurred beyond the November 2019 to September 2020 range that had been investigated.“It had not only happened from 2019 to 202, it’s occurrence that might have taken a bit longer,” he said.
“During the period between November 2019 and September 2020, the municipality unlawfully committed an act which caused significant pollution to the environment,” an NPA statement read. This included “the disposal and distribution of affluent raw and untreated sewer into the Emzinoni location, the eMbalenhle waste water treatment plant, Trichardt Spruit, Wela Mlambo, Leandra N17 Pump Station, Waterval Hoek River, Blesbok Spruit, and Groot Spruit”.
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