WATCH | Sewage-flooded homes in Helenvale spark outcry

Bay community activist Christian Martin and council speaker Gary van Niekerk on the warpath after touring area

Homes flooded with sewage and covered in flies while a three-year-old girl suffers from a lung infection, her mother from diarrhoea, and a senior citizen from tuberculosis.

These are just some of the examples of the dire conditions some Helenvale residents have been forced to live in for the past few months...

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