The Milnerton Lagoon has been heavily polluted for years, mostly by poorly treated effluent from the Potsdam Wastewater Treatment Works. The works releases more than 40 million litres of effluent a …..
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The Cape Town Convict Crisis (1849): When the British government attempted to turn the Cape Colony into a penal settlement by sending the convict ship *Neptune* to Table Bay in 1849, local Capetonians staged a massive civil resistance movement. Citizens organized a total boycott, refusing to supply the ship or British garrison with food or services. The 5-month standoff made international headlines across the British Empire, forcing London to abandon the plan and accelerating Cape self-governance.
