List of Figures
Fig. 1.1
Map of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 1.2
Municipal solid waste washed up on Durban’s beaches,
April 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 1.3
Plastic pollution on Durban’s beaches in the aftermath
of the April 2019 storm that devastated the city . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 1.4
The port of Durban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 1.5
Volunteers removing municipal solid waste from the port
of Durban, April 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 1.6
Tons of municipal solid waste and other debris floating
in the port of Durban, April 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Fig. 3.1
The Port of Durban’s oil storage facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Fig. 3.2
The Durban Marina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Fig. 3.3
Research worldview assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Fig. 3.4
eThekwini’s roof-top garden initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Fig. 3.5
The Palmiet River. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Fig. 3.6
A thunderstorm over the Magaliesberg silhouetted
by lightening at Hartbeespoort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Fig. 3.7
Snowfall over Hartbeespoort, with the Magaliesberg
in the background, August 2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Fig. 3.8
The Dome Pools of the Magaliesberg near Mooinooi,
September 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Fig. 3.9
Durban Botanical Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Fig. 3.10 The Drakensberg from the Monk’s Cowl Nature Reserve,
with a wetland in the foreground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Fig. 3.11 Howick and the Howick Falls from the air, with Midmar Dam
on the uMngeni River in the background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Fig. 3.12 The headwaters of the uMngeni near Nottingham Road
in the Natal Midlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Fig. 3.13 The Inanda Dam supplies water to the eThekwini Metropolitan
Municipality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Fig. 3.14 The Msunduzi River, a tributary of the uMngeni River . . . . . . . 105
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