Johannesburg – Mass evacuation  is one of several recommendations of in a government-commissioned drafted plan. Scores of people face evacuation from greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province because of toxic sludge being spewed by abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation levels. National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) spokesman Gino Moonsamy confirmed that about 500 people were evacuated from the Tudor Shaft informal settlement near Kagiso, west of Johannesburg, due to radiation fears. A...

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No chlorine at Brits sewage works

Written by Kormorant | 3 November 2011

According to water tests conducted at the Brits Sewer plant earlier this month, no chlorine dosing was done and the e-coli count was too high to calculate, Madibeng councillor Eddie Barlow said.

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