The arrival of the manganese rush in East London has sparked fears of hazardous dust pollution and run-off into the environment.While Transnet has worked hard to minimise the concerns, an environmental lawyer has suggested the state corporation is using a loophole in the SA Air Quality Act to avoid having to apply for an atmospheric emission licence (AEL) to conduct a listed activity, which would mean conducting an environmental impact assessment.
Frome L-R is Clive Moodley, Dhayalan Moodley, Visvin Reddy, Cyril Naidu, Sri Srinivasan Moodley and Reverend Cyril Pillay attending the special prayer for Mobeni Heights crematorium that is apparently plagued with a bad omen and according to a well-known Hindu priest, it will not be fixed unless certain rituals were performed after the eThekwini Municipality had spent millions on installing a new furnace that stopped working on Monday. Picture : Motshwari Mofokeng /African News Agency (ANA)
Prayer to rid Mobeni Heights Crematorium of âbad omenâ after it breaks down midway into the first cremation
By Anelisa Kubheka
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Durban - The Mobeni Heights Crematorium was not working again on Tuesday morning shortly after reopening after some years.
WATCH: Mobeni Heights crematorium opens
By Anelisa Kubheka
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Durban - Plans are afoot to get a new cremator into the Tongaat Crematorium to replace the old one.
This was as the Mobeni Heights Crematorium after years, opened its doors to the public who previously had to carry the extra cost of using a private crematorium.
On Monday the facility had already begun its order of business cremating bodies.
Maggie Govender, an ANC constituency MPL in Chatsworth, said their office had received many queries from the community about this facility. We have in the past raised the matter with the municipality and were told it would be opened in February. We have been pushing together with councillors in the city and within the Cogta portfolio committee to have this facility operating back to normal. Yesterday (Sunday) I confirmed with the deputy city manager for Community and Emergency Services, Dr Musa Gumede, who said the facility was functioning with people on site, she said.