Trashed: It is not only sewage that contaminates Gauteng’s rivers. They are used as rubbish dumps, as this litter trap installed last winter in Ekurhuleni by the NGO Fresh shows. Photo: Fresh
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
The day in early September when Coert Steynberg became severely ill after accidentally ingesting water from the sewage-polluted Hennops River had started out like any other.
He enjoyed his usual full breakfast that his wife, Ria, had cooked. The couple danced a…
