UPDATE: Pretorians outraged at condition of Hennops river
“Our actions and attitude towards dumping and littering will determine if water will be available in the near future.”
Pretorians in and around Centurion have expressed outrage at the amount of plastic litter in the Hennops river.
This follows after the Tshwane metro shared images of the litter in the river and condemned it in a social media post on Monday.
“Have you seen our rivers of plastic? Pollution is killing our scarce water resources,” a part of the metro’s post read.
“Our actions and attitude towards dumping and littering will determine if water will be available in the near future.”
In November 2018, Rekord reported that an estimated four tons of litter had accumulated in the Hennops river under a low-water bridge in Centurion.
The litter consisted of Styrofoam packaging, tree branches, paper and what appeared to be charred dog carcasses floating on the water.
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At the time Willem Snyman, director of the FRESH non-profit organisation, said the garbage accumulated under the bridge after obstructions further up the river were removed.
In December, Snyman told Rekord that 71 bags of garbage were removed during their clean-up campaign.
The Tshwane metro and local ward councillor Peter Sutton were yet to respond to Rekord’s enquiry at the time of going to press.
Below are some of the reactions from the metro’s social media post about the state of litter in the river:
Your lack of service delivery is also a contributing factor.
— Mapato_Ramokgopa (@obonwer) January 7, 2019
Well said! But we have a very unreliable government, chances of them acting on that are zero. Elections are coming so that will not be their priority
— Charles Mehlape🇿🇦🇦🇺 (@charles2mm) January 7, 2019
This is really a social issue that needs to be addressed urgently
— Nhlanhla Gezani Leonard (@BaloyiLeonard) January 7, 2019
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