Yep because the whole sewage system in Cape Town has collapse under the control of your most beloved DA for the past 5 years About 2 million litres of sewage are being pumped into the sea from Camps Bay alone per day at the exclusion of the rest of Cape Town I can only imagine the backlash if it was the ANC from you DA Apologists Our beaches is full of KAK
Thankyou for your balanced and well thought through piece on this story. Our seas are absolutely critical to Cape Towns economy and health and the DA has been kicking the can down the road for 30 years in the sewage issue. Foreign tourists are becoming increasingly aware of the problem. I personally have had numerous conversations with concerned tourists who ask if it’s safe to swim. Time to sort this out! The city should actually provide Project blue with funding to independently research the problem (so that there is a truly independent study). Nobody is trying to make this political but the DA has lost credibility. To establish the trust on this issue independent studies are the only way. The current testing regime is flawed and not frequent enough.
For the fact that the story is out, we are already aware of the sea water safety. The important thing is to put strategies in place to correct that which went wrong. That is updating infrastructure. Cape Town is already the Number 1 best country in the world for 2025.
We also need to find out why the internal testing that the City does and publishes on the regular is so much different to those of the independent tests. The infrastructure is difficult to fix (but has to get fixed!) but the testing discrepancy should be easy to remedy.
@@charlcoetzee3358 WHO promotes New Zealand's SafeSwim model, as the ideal model - and that includes an independent audit trail of the whole sampling chain. Doing so in Cape Town would not be expensive at all, so we need to ask why the city isn't doing this already. Also SA water quality guidelines demand both ecoli and enterococci testing, so CoCT resuming ecoli testing would be a good start. But at the end of the day, why should we trust any city official to honestly share data that may make the city look bad? The answer is we can't trust them, and this is why we need fully-independent auditing of the entire sampling 'chain of custody' , not just independent labs.
Go up into the Little Glen behind the Police station and as you enter the gates and cross the little bridge you will see a palm tree. Just below or next to it is a raw sewerage outlet pipe coming down the slope on the left side of the path. The pipe ends at the palm tree and feeds it into the little Glens stream. You can follow that stream with a path running down to the beach where it empties next to the kiddies pool. That area is highly contaminated and dangerous. About 200 yards to the right is Camps Bay beach labelled as a blue flag beach. at its far end is a sewerage pumphouse built 40 years ago which pumps sewerage out to sea through broken pipes, resulting in backwash onto the beach. I hope the next time I visit SA and CT that mess will be taken care of. Greets from Netherlands.
What's hillarious is the DA minister of Foresty, Fishery and Environment. Dion George removed the restrictions on how much raw sewage can be pumped untreated into the ocean...😢
According to a Ground up article the City of Cape Town was granted permits to release sewage out to sea via pipelines in Hout Bay, Green Point and Camps Bay with unlimited quantity and the public was not notified. This is a violation of peoples rights to a healthy environment, this is another crisis brewing.
Hey Dan, have you maybe considered putting up links in your video description to the articles and other sources you use? It will be a great addition to be able to easily go and read these sources! I see it's becoming a standard on some independent journalism channels.
@ Nope, so it's just easier to read everything. I was interested in what Rebecca Davis wrote on this, but had to go and look for the specific article on the DM. It's just a case of having easier access.
We can't even drink the tap water in certain areas now because it makes us sick...this has given a huge rise in water shops around the western cape. A few years ago, they also ran out of lime to clean the water. Yes...the city still charges water levies, pipe levies and additional charges based on the past water shortage...so out municipal accounts are bloated with other charges.
Grow up DA, deal with it - address and fix the problem, and ditch your stupid infantile politicking. Geez, you're all the same - you dont really care about people's lives, only your political careers🤑😯. But as a RSA citizen, I want you to care. No, I demand it. Get to work!!!! You are not entitled to waste hard-earned tax payers' money on your Obtuse Egos. Fed up with all you useless, selfish politicians 😤
Absolutely abhorrent how they lie and cover up their failings. The water samples were tested at YOUR OWN LAB and yet the govt still wants to go, "nuh-uhhhhh!".
All, ALL, governments behave the same. They all put their own interests ahead of the people. If it's the people or the politicians, they will always choose themselves.
This has been brewing for a decade, imo, the infrastructure can't handle the amount of people that moved to Cape town. Very kak from the city imo, they should try and do some proper work and upgrade the infrastructure. But that will be billions down the line
Maybe if police spent more time going after crooks who dump their refuse into the ocean, and less time hiding speed cameras on school roads (saw one last week dropping the kids off), then we might actually be able to swim without getting cholera.
Its a very sad affair nevermind getting sick from swimming in the sea at these polluted beaches people still catch and consume the fish at these beaches as well which are also contaminated with these pollutants.
you can google search images of "brown tide" dumping off Sea Point and Milnerton lagoon. despite the DA spin, the ocean is not safe (which is why I haven't surfed in the last 6 years - to avoid the apocalyptic stomach bugs that follow)
For me it wasn’t stomach bugs but fungal skin infections that looked like something out of an apocalyptic movie 💀💀almost like those skin infections that zombies get when they first get infected terrible honestly
I have it on good authority that the mayor and the city know how bad it is but can’t admit it due to the damage it will cause with global Pr tourism etc and so have to play the “you’re wrong “ card until they have the funds and time to fix the shituation- which will take years
You know it is bad when OUTA gets involved...OUTA did get involved over the Millerton Lagoon sewage dumping People do not know much because they only pay attention where the ANC is in charge. The DA just know how to keep things hush 😉
Really enjoyed the reporting on this, I have been keeping close to this story. While general politics is fun, the gripes between politics and science are facinating. I just want to say a tiny correction, E. coli and Enterococcus are used as a measure of human waste in water, it is not simply just found.
I think a more understandable reaction if you thought the research was wrong or lying would be to run your own tests in those areas and then publish the findings.
Dangerous levels of sewage in Durban Beaches is an extremely recent thing, it feels longer because that's the default the beaches have been since just before the pandemic
Kak must be serious when my broer doesn't wear A SINGLE BEANIE!!!
Yep because the whole sewage system in Cape Town has collapse under the control of your most beloved DA for the past 5 years
About 2 million litres of sewage are being pumped into the sea from Camps Bay alone per day at the exclusion of the rest of Cape Town
I can only imagine the backlash if it was the ANC from you DA Apologists
Our beaches is full of KAK
It was me guys. I'm sorry. I took a shit in the water at camps bay.
Thankyou for your balanced and well thought through piece on this story. Our seas are absolutely critical to Cape Towns economy and health and the DA has been kicking the can down the road for 30 years in the sewage issue. Foreign tourists are becoming increasingly aware of the problem. I personally have had numerous conversations with concerned tourists who ask if it’s safe to swim. Time to sort this out! The city should actually provide Project blue with funding to independently research the problem (so that there is a truly independent study). Nobody is trying to make this political but the DA has lost credibility. To establish the trust on this issue independent studies are the only way. The current testing regime is flawed and not frequent enough.
😂😂😂 The DA cannot be governing like the ANC CPT is their entire selling point if that fails what then
Journalists are the underrated heroes of our society. Keep up the great work.
The DA is allergic to accountability just like the ANC.
Its not cape town International... Its South Africa+😅
For the fact that the story is out, we are already aware of the sea water safety. The important thing is to put strategies in place to correct that which went wrong. That is updating infrastructure. Cape Town is already the Number 1 best country in the world for 2025.
We also need to find out why the internal testing that the City does and publishes on the regular is so much different to those of the independent tests. The infrastructure is difficult to fix (but has to get fixed!) but the testing discrepancy should be easy to remedy.
@@charlcoetzee3358 WHO promotes New Zealand's SafeSwim model, as the ideal model - and that includes an independent audit trail of the whole sampling chain. Doing so in Cape Town would not be expensive at all, so we need to ask why the city isn't doing this already.
Also SA water quality guidelines demand both ecoli and enterococci testing, so CoCT resuming ecoli testing would be a good start.
But at the end of the day, why should we trust any city official to honestly share data that may make the city look bad?
The answer is we can't trust them, and this is why we need fully-independent auditing of the entire sampling 'chain of custody' , not just independent labs.
Question, I'm from Durban do I need to apply for a visa the next time I visit Cape Town the Number 1 best country 🤐😂😂🤣
@easygoingdevilfan1387 tsek🤣🤣🤣silly you...honest mistake. Not a BAD PROPOSITION THOUGH....
Erratum: No1 best city in the WORLD 🌎🌎🌎
Go up into the Little Glen behind the Police station and as you enter the gates and cross the little bridge you will see a palm tree. Just below or next to it is a raw sewerage outlet pipe coming down the slope on the left side of the path. The pipe ends at the palm tree and feeds it into the little Glens stream. You can follow that stream with a path running down to the beach where it empties next to the kiddies pool. That area is highly contaminated and dangerous. About 200 yards to the right is Camps Bay beach labelled as a blue flag beach. at its far end is a sewerage pumphouse built 40 years ago which pumps sewerage out to sea through broken pipes, resulting in backwash onto the beach. I hope the next time I visit SA and CT that mess will be taken care of. Greets from Netherlands.
Next time you come down, there were will be even more sewerage and they will call you racist for noticing.
What's hillarious is the DA minister of Foresty, Fishery and Environment. Dion George removed the restrictions on how much raw sewage can be pumped untreated into the ocean...😢
Really enjoy the reporting and summaries you do - the more we are kept informed the better off we all are. Thank you
According to a Ground up article the City of Cape Town was granted permits to release sewage out to sea via pipelines in Hout Bay, Green Point and Camps Bay with unlimited quantity and the public was not notified. This is a violation of peoples rights to a healthy environment, this is another crisis brewing.
Hey Dan, have you maybe considered putting up links in your video description to the articles and other sources you use? It will be a great addition to be able to easily go and read these sources! I see it's becoming a standard on some independent journalism channels.
So you can discredit em?
I think it a great idea. discrediting information is fine. It shows that people are not taking information at face value.
@ Nope, so it's just easier to read everything. I was interested in what Rebecca Davis wrote on this, but had to go and look for the specific article on the DM. It's just a case of having easier access.
We can't even drink the tap water in certain areas now because it makes us sick...this has given a huge rise in water shops around the western cape. A few years ago, they also ran out of lime to clean the water. Yes...the city still charges water levies, pipe levies and additional charges based on the past water shortage...so out municipal accounts are bloated with other charges.
Just boil your water
I come to Cape town every year, we were there over Christmas. My partner swam in fish hoek then became sick the next day. Coincidence?
Fish hoek isn't really a problem the main issues are on the Atlantic seaboard side and houtbay, so the otherside of cape towns coast
Grow up DA, deal with it - address and fix the problem, and ditch your stupid infantile politicking. Geez, you're all the same - you dont really care about people's lives, only your political careers🤑😯.
But as a RSA citizen, I want you to care. No, I demand it. Get to work!!!! You are not entitled to waste hard-earned tax payers' money on your Obtuse Egos. Fed up with all you useless, selfish politicians 😤
Absolutely abhorrent how they lie and cover up their failings.
The water samples were tested at YOUR OWN LAB and yet the govt still wants to go, "nuh-uhhhhh!".
I like your genuinely impartial way of conducting yourself, Dan. Stay true!
All, ALL, governments behave the same. They all put their own interests ahead of the people. If it's the people or the politicians, they will always choose themselves.
This has been brewing for a decade, imo, the infrastructure can't handle the amount of people that moved to Cape town. Very kak from the city imo, they should try and do some proper work and upgrade the infrastructure. But that will be billions down the line
Maybe if police spent more time going after crooks who dump their refuse into the ocean,
and less time hiding speed cameras on school roads (saw one last week dropping the kids off),
then we might actually be able to swim without getting cholera.
Its a very sad affair nevermind getting sick from swimming in the sea at these polluted beaches people still catch and consume the fish at these beaches as well which are also contaminated with these pollutants.
you can google search images of "brown tide" dumping off Sea Point and Milnerton lagoon. despite the DA spin, the ocean is not safe (which is why I haven't surfed in the last 6 years - to avoid the apocalyptic stomach bugs that follow)
For me it wasn’t stomach bugs but fungal skin infections that looked like something out of an apocalyptic movie 💀💀almost like those skin infections that zombies get when they first get infected terrible honestly
Omg DA using Israel tactics trying to silence journalist is wiiiild😂😂😂😂😂
My wetsuit and swim shorts smell horrible when I swam in Cape Town (for real)
I just want to know, is the Issue still being published on podcast sites?
I vomit when I drink from the tap here. Strong mistrust of water. They weren't lying when they said Cape Town is becoming Europe.
Don't drink tap water ever in any place. Drink filtered water only
Good reporting Dan
I have it on good authority that the mayor and the city know how bad it is but can’t admit it due to the damage it will cause with global Pr tourism etc and so have to play the “you’re wrong “ card until they have the funds and time to fix the shituation- which will take years
You know it is bad when OUTA gets involved...OUTA did get involved over the Millerton Lagoon sewage dumping
People do not know much because they only pay attention where the ANC is in charge.
The DA just know how to keep things hush 😉
Wow, I think the da has just lost my vote.
Really enjoyed the reporting on this, I have been keeping close to this story. While general politics is fun, the gripes between politics and science are facinating. I just want to say a tiny correction, E. coli and Enterococcus are used as a measure of human waste in water, it is not simply just found.
And there i thought only the ANC was shit, DA seems to be doing well in it as well😅
I think a more understandable reaction if you thought the research was wrong or lying would be to run your own tests in those areas and then publish the findings.
Typically DA rhetoric !!!!!
No man lets smoke brother 😂😂👌
Yea got stomach bug sore traot nose ear fever low grade for 2 weeks never got sixk in my life here in seapoint
Please make video on WCED cutting teachers' jobs and implications.
DA slogan: WESTERN CAPE WORKS 😂
Propaganda media
just after capetown named 2025 times city of the year? danm
Dangerous levels of sewage in Durban Beaches is an extremely recent thing, it feels longer because that's the default the beaches have been since just before the pandemic
i just came from the beach
Oir water is already kak to drink pls let us know
DA == ANC !!!! ANYONE SURPRISED???? Hulle almal se poeeessss !!!!!
Eet jy met daai vuil bek of kry jy aarvoeding?
And now... the jingle ua-cam.com/video/uyUEFd817XA/v-deo.html
Fokon red flag now no more blue
Pls tel us wich beaches so we can fkn stay away is makin us sick swimmin in poeples kak watvthe use beaches look so nice
Atlantic seaboard, or the cold side, false bay should be cleaner
@@kooijpolloi8220All ocean around Cape Town is Atlantic, right down to L'Agulhas. Oh, when will they learn ....
Cite your sources please