DEAR Editor,-
We have been holidaying on the South Coast annually for many years, but this will be the last year that we will visit South Coast beaches.
Most of the family was ill – vomiting and diarrhoea and one of my granddaughters even ended up at the emergency section of a local hospital and had to receive a drip and injections to stop vomiting.
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The other grandchild was vomiting and we managed to ‘self-medicate’ her, but then her mom also started experiencing the same symptoms (vomiting and diarrhoea). I suffered with constant nausea.
While standing at the pharmacy, I met people ahead of me who had just visited the same doctor for the same reason. Many people in the complex we were staying at were also very ill.
One local woman told us that she formally complained and took it up with the people involved, but NOBODY did anything about it.
Every evening at 6pm, the sewerage farm opens their pipelines directly into the lagoon that runs into the sea. I tried calling the advertised emergency numbers and even sourced cell numbers for the municipality, but one person was on leave and I left a message for other one, but my call was never returned.
The sea from Port Shepstone to Port Edward is so contaminated and I will do everything in my power to notify people of the contamination danger on the South Coast.
Our 13-day holiday turned out to be a disaster with eight days spent sick in bed.
THE ROWLES FAMILY
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