Water and sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina

The net is closing on municipalities accused of pumping raw sewage into SA’s waterways, with 96 criminal cases already opened.

Water and sanitation minister Pemmy Majodina revealed this in a written reply to a question in the National Assembly.

She was responding to MK Party MP Visvin Reddy, who wanted to know whether municipal officials responsible for repeated sewage pollution had been held accountable.

The 96 cases span 53 municipalities across all nine provinces.