The good, bad and ugly: a tale of rural rubbish dumps
Historic inequality in service delivery such as waste collection and management is likely to worsen, experts predict — and again the poor will be most affected
12 November 2023 - 00:00
People, baboons and pigs forage at the Ladismith rubbish dump, just off the R62 in the Klein Karoo, on a weekday afternoon. Plastic is impaled like flowers on the surrounding trees and litter mars the neighbouring dorpie of Zoar, which sends its waste to the Western Cape dump. ..
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