eThekwini Councillor Sharmaine Sewshanker peers into a pool of sewage outside a Durban Hotel. The hotel is bearing the effects of a technical failure experienced at the municipality’s Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station near Point.
A Durban hotel manager said his guests are greeted by a massive hole filled with sewage and an unbearable stench, leaving him disgusted with the eThekwini Municipality's response to repairs.
The hotel is bearing the effects of a technical failure experienced at the municipality’s Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station, near the Point. The technical failure has caused some beaches to close, and left the sailing fraternity based at the harbour angry.
For more than a week, sewer water has overflowed from pipelines onto parts of Margaret Mncadi Avenue (previously known as Victoria Embankment) and into the harbour.
The manager, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the hotel, said the problems with the sewer pipelines outside his business have been ongoing, but in March 2026, two sinkholes formed outside his fence, exposing cables and raw sewage flowing underground.
