WATCH 🎥 Hartbeespoort Dam arial view 🌊

If we didn’t have corrupt municipalities and comrades treating public resources like personal property, this could actually be possible. 🌱💧➡️⚡ Clear the dams, create jobs, produce biofuel and generate clean energy. The solution is there — the corruption is the blockage. 🇿🇦

Imagine buying a house cause you wanted a dam view and this is what you see now everyday

Can't the municipality afford Blu52? Kidding: this is actually horrific

Everyone in the town must just get together and start cleaning it ?

They ruined a whole beautiful nature, for what???

We need to fix the sewage plants upstream in Gauteng first because they spill into the Dam. These rivers are pumping nutrients into the dam and making the hyacinth explode. While that’s happening, keep the bugs, the harvesting and the oxygen tech going so the old seed bank slowly runs out. This has to be a long term project cause the hyacinth is very stubborn.

Lucas Mangope warned them 🇿🇦🚮😕

Was there last month,we wanted to take the kids there for a school trip and yoh 🥲

Lakeside mall in Benoni and Boksburg lake also not maintained

Those houses must be dirt cheap because that green stuff is basically part of the neighbourhood. 😭

I can assure you the farmers around know exactly how to resolve the issue but our Gvt won't allow them. 😮‍💨😮‍💨

@pmcafrica And summer is here how are those resorts and boating places supposed to make money, this is killing the areas economy

Rapid urbanization and failing wastewater infrastructure around the Crocodile and Jukskei river catchments severely enriched the water with nutrients. This caused massive, recurring layers of weeds and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) blooms.

Stop lying...I was there not so long ago

The smell of rotten eggs that comes from there😭😭and the robot through the tunnel makes sure to give maximum punishment 🤮🤮by closing unnecessarily long

A few moments earlier

The dam needs everyday maintenance by the municipality and Dept of water and Sanitation. This can create jobs from hiring maintenance staff, ensure that the dam is clear of this plant and enable the economic activity in the area of the dam to grow and create more jobs

What's the responsibility of the greedy bastards who charge ridiculous amounts of money mainly to keep poor indegineous black people from also enjoying the dam? Private companies own erfs around the dam and poor people who have lived around the dam for hundreds of years are kept away from the dam. There are also expensive estates with ridiculous levies. What are the levies for? Estate agents in Harties are part of the corruption ecosystem which is a curse in the North West. They're big enablers of money laundering and corruption and most of the fancy mansions there were bought with monies stolen from municipalities and provincial departments. I'm not absolving the Madibeng and Gauteng municipalities from their responsibilities of stopping sewerage and other pollutants from dirtying the dam but the dam is just a symptom of wider rot there.

This can still be rescued and build into our own inland Costa del Sol. The only thing missing here is political will.

#ANC #EpicFailure Millions of rands (both public +private funding) have been flushed into the dam with failed interventions and poor management of environment.

Knowing me and my clumsiness, I’d probably fall from the helicopter into the water while taking this video

The South African government is allergic to maintenance 🫣🙆🏾‍♂️….Roads, Eskom, Transnet & now Harties…Durban Municipality’s even responsible for closure of Sapref Refinery because they failed to carry out routine maintenance on the canals that carry the storm water into the ocean

@mlaba_lwazi bona

As someone who passes at the dam 5 days a week, I can clearly say there are days when the dam is very clear.

I grew up there ski behind the boat. Loved it. The local government must be sued and the corrupt must go prison

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Cry the beloved Harties!

Our government should stop being ignorant, tenderizing everything and bring creative people to clean these dams. The next thing we are told SA is water scarcity country whilst they ignore contributing factors

I want a tender to clean that dam 😎

Grok says water hyacinth is an excellent fertiliser for crops. Looks like someone could make a lot of money harvesting it.

The problem with spectators of this post is speculating that residents & some responsible departmental employees have done nothing over the years Yes there’s been corruption in the Minicipality but this is a project national stepped in years ago on This issue isn’t new

@lavidaNOTA

Latest News - Bugs are winning the war against Hartbeespoort’s hyacinths They are from the Amazon Basin in South America. They were imported to South Africa in 1910 for ornamental garden ponds and aquariums.

This plant grows so fast , they try to clean but alas 😭😞😭😞 it's bad