Fig. 3.15 The River Horse wetland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Fig. 3.16 Perspectives present in the analysed interviews. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Fig. 3.17 Businesses close to the River Horse wetland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Fig. 3.18 Municipal workers cleaning municipal solid waste
in the wake of the devastating April 2019 storm . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Fig. 3.19 View across the uMngeni Vlei—conceptualised as an
ecological infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Fig. 3.20 uMngeni Vlei Note the snow-capped hills and Drakensberg
Mountains in the background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Fig. 3.21 Midmar Dam spill way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Fig. 3.22 oHlanga Estuary, at Umhlanga Rocks, north of Durban . . . . . . . 121
Fig. 3.23 Umkomaas Estuary, south of Durban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Fig. 3.24 An egret hunting fishes in the oHlanga Estuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Fig. 3.25 Luxury apartments on the beach front at Umhlanga Rocks. . . . . 153
Fig. 3.26 Small fish in the oHlanga Estuary north of Durban These fish
are Glassies (Ambassis natalensis), which is one of few fish
species that completes its life-cycle in South African estuaries,
whereas most are species that spawn at sea, recruit into the
estuaries as young juveniles and use the systems
as nurseries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Fig. 3.27 An angler collecting sand prawn Callichirus kraussi
for bait from the oHlanga Estuary at low tide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Fig. 3.28 An angler with collected sand prawn Callichirus kraussi
from the oHlanga Estuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Fig. 3.29 Alien vegetation and erosion near Durban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Fig. 3.30 Anglers at the Umkomaas Estuary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Fig. 3.31 A rat (Rattus) along the banks of the uMngeni River near
the Quarry Road informal settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Fig. 3.32 A black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Fig. 3.33 The sum of causal mechanisms in the analysed interviews . . . . . 178
Fig. 3.34 Respondent 1’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Fig. 3.35 Respondent 2’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Fig. 3.36 Respondent 3’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Fig. 3.37 Respondent 4’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Fig. 3.38 Respondent 5’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Fig. 3.39 Respondent 6’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Fig. 3.40 Respondent 7’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
Fig. 3.41 Respondent 8’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Fig. 3.42 Respondent 9’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Fig. 3.43 Respondent 10’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Fig. 3.44 Respondent 11’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Fig. 3.45 Respondent 12’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Fig. 3.46 Responding 13’s identified causal mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
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