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South Africa’s Isinuka Spring near Port St Johns is naturally pink. Its waters and clay are said to contain healing properties but are now contaminated by microplastics. Courtesy Thendo Mutshekwa

Sacred springs of South Africa: pure waters or polluted? We found tiny bits of plastic in the samples we tested

Thendo Mutshekwa, Rhodes University; Lubabalo Mofu, National Research Foundation, and Samuel N. Motitsoe, University of the Witwatersrand

Even South Africa’s remote sacred springs are not untouched: research found microplastics in all nine tested, including waters used for healing and drinking.

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