{"id":53177,"date":"2023-06-09T18:26:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/noordkaapbulletin\/expert-cholera-can-be-everywhere-along-rivers-20230609\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T13:10:05","slug":"expert-cholera-can-be-everywhere-along-rivers-20230609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/noordkaapbulletin\/expert-cholera-can-be-everywhere-along-rivers-20230609\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert: \u2018Cholera can be everywhere along rivers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cholera has claimed more lives than what has been officially confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is according to a water quality specialist who has visited every municipal sewage treatment plant along the Orange and lower Vaal River, and who has taken and analysed water samples for the past five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Vaal River at Warrenton. The confluence of the Vaal and Oranje River is at Douglas. Fritz Bekker, a water quality specialist, has filed criminal charges against the municipal managers of Vanderkloof, Hopetown, Upington, Kakamas, and Vredesvallei along the Orange River, as well as Bloemhof, Christiana, Warrenton, Hartswater, Jan Kempdorp and Barkly West next to the Vaal River concerning poor sewage plant management. However, cholera is not only a threat to residents of towns and cities next to rivers \u2013 water for the Northern Cape capital, Kimberley, is also pumped from the Vaal River.<\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Helena Barnard<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The national Department of Health confirmed on Friday, 9 June, that in recent weeks there have been 32 deaths to cholera in Gauteng, the Free State, and North West. The first cases were reported in Hammanskraal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fritz Bekker, a water quality specialist who monitors chemical, bacterial, and biological water quality in the rivers in question on behalf of the non-governmental organisation Gariep Watch, believes the situation is much worse than the department realises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cholera travels fast and far down rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, Bekker filed criminal cases about poor sewage plant management against the municipal managers of Vanderkloof, Hopetown, Upington, Kakamas, and Vredesvallei along the Orange River, and Bloemhof, Christiana, Warrenton, Hartswater, Jan Kempdorp and Barkly West next to the Vaal River. According to him, water treatment plants, many of which extract water from rivers and purify it for drinking, are often poorly managed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roodepan, Kimberley. In this part of the neighbourhood, several houses are surrounded by sewage. The sewage pump station has not been functional for a long while and was vandalised. This photo was taken in May this year.<\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Supplied\/Johan Smit<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Platfontein Dam outside Kimberley, two years ago. What used to be a small natural pan, is growing into a dam due to sewage spills, faulty sewage treatment plants, as well as leaking fresh water pipes from Kimberley. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Archive<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Platfontein Dam in May this year after \u201cinterventions\u201d and millions spent. In summer, children from the Platfontein community play in the water, and herds of cattle drink from the dam. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Supplied\/Johan Smit<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Shocked that officials are surprised<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bekker is shocked that officials are surprised by the cholera cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone has been aware of the raw sewage discharges from local authorities, who are the biggest water polluters in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe accountable municipal managers should be charged with culpable homicide because they should have foreseen the possibility that their actions could lead to deaths.\u201d<\/div>\n
Fritz Bekker<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Frtiz Bekker <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Archive<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth Gariep Watch and University of Stellenbosch are busy with risk analyses upstream and downstream of various sewage works which can be used to collect forensic quality evidence to prosecute the municipal managers with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause of my research over numerous years, I am 100% sure that many more people have died of cholera and other waterborne diseases in recent years. The deceased and patients were just not tested for the diseases to confirm a diagnosis. The incidents were probably just attributed to diarrhoea or some other seasonal stomach bug.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of his research, Bekker was able to make certain findings, such as that the E.coli content in polluted water correlates with the number of hospital admissions due to diarrhoea in the areas concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In and around Upington it is common for farm workers and others to use water directly from the canals and rivers. His tests of the river water from which Upington\u2019s drinking water is derived, have shown glaringly high levels of E.coli since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can even catch the disease if you swim in the river water or practise water sports and get a splash of water in your mouth. Fruits and vegetables retaining their skins and eaten raw can also contain human waste, of which the E.coli count is an indicator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sewage overflowing from manholes and leaking from damaged pipes is a common sight in most municipalities, such as this one in Homevale, Kimberley. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Archive<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A faulty and inadequate sewage system in Roodepan, Kimberley, is the cause of this dam of sewage around a house. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Helena Barnard<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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During a visit in September 2021 to the Homevale Sewage Treatment Plant in Kimberley. Present were amongst other Boy Dhluwayo, then director of infrastructure and services at the Sol Plaatje Municipality, Goolam Akharwaray, former municipal manager, David Mabuza, former deputy president, and Dr. Zamani Saul, premier of the Northern Cape. <\/div>\n
<\/span>Photo: Charn\u00e9 Kemp<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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No positive Green Drop reports<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNone of the Northern Cape, North West or Free State municipalities under investigation along the rivers have received positive Green Drop reports for sewage water quality in the past year,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is exacerbated because the wastewater of clinics and hospitals, which contains complex combinations of pathogenic organisms and pharmaceutical substances, is also directed to municipal sewage treatment plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAntibiotic resistance is a major concern because the pathogens survive in the presence of low concentrations of antibiotics in our rivers and then become resistant.\u201d<\/div>\n
Fritz Bekker<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, Bekker has conducted risk analyses on data sets every three months. In each data set, the acceptable levels of E.coli in the water were exceeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cE.coli is an indicator of human excrement in the water, of untreated sewage that has been dumped into the rivers. The E.coli are breeding grounds for parasites, viruses, bacteria, and fungi that can spread diseases such as gastroenteritis, schistosomiasis, cholera, dysentery, hepatitis A, amebiasis, trichomes, typhoid fever, poliomyelitis and leptospirosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSewage treatment plants have been poorly managed for several years by incompetent staff who do not know how to operate the works and do not realise the seriousness of sewage spills. The water at sewage plants is now much more concentrated and polluted than even those at open manholes and pumping stations where slow-moving sewage is exposed to oxygen and UV light, and some of the pathogens are destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bekker says the risk of water-borne diseases such as cholera is very high for water users from rivers into which untreated sewage is dumped. The risk increases in the first few days of high flow periods and then again with low flows when there is little dilution in rivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Making good progress\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In a statement last week, the national department of health said they were making \u201cgood progress to control the spread of cholera and investigate the cause of the outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNational, provincial, and district teams have been dispatched as part of the investigation to inform residents about the disease and how to avoid it. Until last week, 600 people suspected of having the disease were seen in hospitals in Gauteng and the Free State. In Hammanskraal, 200 people are in a field hospital,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In five provinces, 166 cholera cases have been confirmed by laboratory tests so far, with 202 cases where the disease is suspected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The department warns people to be careful of suspected contaminated food, water and surfaces, to wash their hands regularly when preparing food and visiting the bathroom, and to not drink untreated water from rivers, streams, and ponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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