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Residents demand action over alarming water quality at Zandvlei Nature Reserve
20 April 2021 1:02 PM
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Residents have started a petition demanding action from the City of Cape Town over the deteriorating water quality at the Zandvlei Nature Reserve.
Concerned residents say that pollution and sewage spills into the vlei are degrading the waters of the nature reserve in Muizenberg.
An online petition was started two weeks ago on Change.org to save Zandvlei Nature Reserve. It has garnered over 5,300 signatures as of Tuesday 20 April.
Residents are demanding that the City s mayco member for water and waste, Xanthea Limberg, and the mayco member for spatial planning and environment, Marian Niewoudt, meet with the community to discuss the immediate action required to protect Zandvlei from future sewage and industrial spills.
Lockdown validated 10 years of PHA Food & Farming Campaign work
By Opinion
by Nazeer A Sonday
The year 2020 will be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic and a lockdown that closed down the city.
Just two years before, 2018 will go down in our memory for dry taps and Day Zero. Throughout both crises, the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) foodlands proved to be worth their weight in gold as an essential part of the city’s well-being.
Foodlands is a word born out of the struggle to protect the PHA. It means: “Urban/peri-urban farmlands and farming communities growing horticultural crops of high nutritional, medicinal, and ecosystem value, with short supply chain from the plaas to the plate.”