# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weerdiens het ʼn waarskuwing uitgereik oor gure weer wat van Sondag tot Dinsdag in die Wes-Kaap sal voorkom. In dele van die provinsie het swaar reën hierdie week reeds erge oorstromings veroorsaak. Mense moes ontruim en in Knysna is ʼn vrou dood. Ramp-risikobestuur se woordvoerder, Sonica Lategan, sê die kouefronte sal ontwrigtende […]
# The Freedom Front Plus says Ekurhuleni Municipality’s latest electricity tariff application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa inadvertently exposed a discrepancy of approximately seven-billion-rand in the calculations. In its application, the metro incorrectly calculated its Eskom bill for bulk electricity, inflating the amount from 25.5-billion-rand to 32.7-billion-rand. The FF Plus’s Jennifer Glover […]
# Minister of Transport Barbara Creecy says they are working with the Health Department to track and monitor possible hantavirus cases in South Africa. This follows the death of three people linked to the Dutch MV Hondius cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, including a passenger who collapsed at OR Tambo International. The Health Department is monitoring […]
# Limpopo se Departement van Vervoer en Gemeenskapsveiligheid sê die N1 by Witvlag is weer oop vir verkeer ná ʼn ernstige ongeluk waarby ʼn bus uit Malawi betrokke was. Volgens die voorlopige ondersoek was die bus met 61 passasiers aan boord op pad van Malawi na Gauteng toe ʼn meganiese probleem die ongeluk veroorsaak het. […]
# The South African Weather Service has issued an advisory of expected inclement weather for the Western Cape from Sunday until Tuesday. Parts of the province experienced heavy rains this week which led to flooding, the death of one person in Knysna, and evacuations. Disaster risk management’s Charlotte Powell says the frontal system will result […]
# The Limpopo Department of Transport and Community Safety says the N1 at Witvlag is now open to traffic again, following a serious accident Malawian bus. Preliminary investigations suggest that the bus was travelling from Malawi to Gauteng, carrying 61 passengers, when it suffered a mechanical failure, causing an accident. The department’s spokesperson, Mashudu Mabata, says […]
# Die Tuinroete-distriksmunisipaliteit en Agri Wes-Kaap het ‘n nuwe geval van bek-en-klouseer in die Mosselbaaigebied bevestig. Dis op ‘n klein beesplaas geïdentifiseer aan die kant van die bestaande kwarantyngebied van tien-kilometer in Groot-Brakrivier. Woordvoerder Herman Pieters sê beamptes het gedurende inspeksie en inentingswerk verdagte letsels opgemerk, waarna hulle monsters geneem het. Hy sê die uitslag […]
# Die GOOD-party in Tshwane sê stappe wat die metro se veelparty-koalisieregering gedoen het, lewer goeie resultate op en bevorder groei en verandering. Tshwane werk met ‘n ten volle ondersteunde begroting met kontantvloei wat van net 17 dae verlede jaar tot 25 dae toegeneem het. Sarah Mabotsa van GOOD sê byna een-derde van die 6,67-miljard-rand […]
# The Garden Route District Municipality and Agri Western Cape have confirmed a new case of foot-and-mouth disease in the Mossel Bay area. It was identified on a small beef farm on the edge of the existing ten-kilometre quarantine zone in Groot Brak River. Spokesperson Herman Pieters says officials noticed suspicious lesions during inspection and […]
