eThekwini Councillor Sharmaine Sewshanker looks at the paving with a sink hole which has a putrid smell was emanating from it. The hotel is bearing the effects of a technical failure experienced at the municipality’s Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station near Point.
Guests at a Durban hotel are met with a sewage overflow and a foul stench due to a municipal pump station failure, leaving the hotel manager frustrated with the lack of repairs.
The hotel bears the effects of a technical failure experienced at the municipality’s Mahatma Gandhi Pump Station, near the Point area. The technical failure has also caused some beaches to close, and has enraged the sailing fraternity based at the local harbour.
For more than a week, sewer water 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.
