DA Gauteng says Roodepoort’s sewage crisis is an environmental emergency [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says it will write to Environmental Affairs MEC, Shyla Peters, seeking urgent intervention to fix Roodepoort’s broken sewage pipe, which puts residents’ health and the environment at risk. During a recent oversight inspection, the DA discovered that a sewage pipe, previously damaged during a storm in 2022, had broken once again. The DA’s, Jade Miller, says thousands of litres of raw sewage are discharged hourly into the local water networks: