# The Water Institute of Southern Africa is warning of increased water security risks as South Africa enters the summer rainfall season. The South African Weather Service forecasts below-normal rainfall and above-normal temperatures across most of the country between this month and December. The institute’s CEO, Lester Goldman, says skilled professionals are needed to translate […]
# Nigerië het sy eerste Ebola-geval aangemeld in ʼn vrou wat van Uganda na Abuja gereis het. Die Demokratiese Republiek die Kongo beleef sy dodelikste Ebola-uitbreking in die geskiedenis weens die skaars Bundibugyo-stam. Minstens vier-duisend-600 mense is dood en meer as nege-duisend-500 gevalle aangeteken. Kenia het vroeër die maand sy eerste geval aangemeld en sedertdien […]
# Nigeria has confirmed its first Ebola case after a woman who travelled from Uganda to Abuja tested positive. The Democratic Republic of Congo is battling its deadliest and fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak in history, driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain. At least four-thousand-600 people have died, with over nine-thousand-500 cases recorded. Kenya confirmed its first […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie waarsku lekkende pype, stygende vraag en onvoldoende munisipale belegging in infrastruktuur vererger die waterkrisis. Direkteur-generaal Sean Phillips, het op ‘n Waternavorsingskommissie-geleentheid gesê 47-persent van die water in Gauteng gaan verlore of word nie verreken nie, met die syfer wat in eThekwini op 60-persent staan. Hy sê 74-persent van […]
# Die Buffalo City Munisipaliteit in die Oos-Kaap het Orientstrand en Oos-strand in KuGompo City tot verdere kennisgewing gesluit ná vanoggend se noodlottige haaiaanval op Orientstrand. Die slagoffer was volgens berigte ‘n bejaarde vrou wat saam met ‘n groep oopwaterswemmers geswem het. Die munisipaliteit vra strandgangers om uit die water te bly op die betrokke […]
# The Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality in the Eastern Cape has closed Orient Beach and Eastern Beach in KuGompo City until further notice following a fatal shark attack at Orient Beach this morning. The victim is reported to be an elderly woman swimming with a group of open-water swimmers. The municipality has urged beachgoers to […]
# The Department of Water and Sanitation has warned that South Africa’s water crisis is worsened by leaking pipes, rising demand and poor municipal investment. Speaking at a Water Research Commission event, the department’s director-general Sean Phillips says 47-percent of water in Gauteng is lost or unaccounted for, and 60-percent in eThekwini. He says 74-percent […]
# Tshwane se burgemeester, Nasiphi Moya, ontken bewerings dat cholera die uitbreking van maag-en-dermverwante siektes in Bronkhorstspruit veroorsaak het en sê dis nie as oorsaak identifiseer nie. Moya beskuldig die DA se burgemeesterskandidaat, Cilliers Brink, daarvan dat hy die waterkrisis uitbuit vir politieke gewin. Sy sê hy maak misleidende bewerings oor cholera en hou aan […]
# Tshwane mayor Nasiphi Moya has dismissed claims linking the gastrointestinal illness outbreak in Bronkhorstspruit to cholera, saying it has not been identified as the cause. She has also accused the DA’s mayoral candidate, Cilliers Brink, for exploiting the water crisis for political gain. Moya accuses him of making misleading claims about cholera and repeating […]
