Devi | Kya Sands still burning | 10 May 2026

Two years ago, #TheDevi Show exposed how illegal dumping syndicates had turned a closed landfill in Kya Sands, Johannesburg into a toxic wasteland — where truck drivers paid cash to off-load waste.

The City of Johannesburg promised to rehabilitate the site where fires burned daily.

Devi returns to Kya Sands and discovers the dumping hasn’t stopped - it’s simply moved down the road.

Residents say underground fires are still burning, sending toxic smoke into homes, schools and neighbourhoods, kilometres away.

This week, the City finally speaks. With a R150 million rehabilitation project underway — and the pollution still spreading — the question remains:

Has anything really changed?

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