Words: Peter Luhanga / GroundUp
The City of Cape Town has moved to clean up chronic dumping in overcrowded Dunoon following a warning from the Western Cape environment department.
In a pre-directive issued to the municipal manager on 27 August, the director of Environmental Law Enforcement in the provincial Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning Achmad Bassier said large amounts of general waste had been dumped in the local park, along the roadside and in a dam next to the N7, which is not only causing significant pollution of the environment but also impacting negatively on the health and wellbeing of the residents within the Dunoon township.
Bassier said the City had not taken reasonable measures to prevent pollution.
The City was given a week to explain why the pre-directive should not be made a directive.
