# The City of Tshwane has activated alternative water supplies for the Pretoria CBD and surrounding areas. This comes after water-quality tests detected microbiological contamination in water supplied from the Findlay Reservoir. The contamination was detected after a sewer pipe burst, resulting in elevated microbial levels that exceeded the capacity of the existing chlorination measures. […]
# The DA in Gauteng has expressed concern about the growing water crisis in the province. Rand Water’s Vlakfontein reservoir is running low, threatening supply to Benoni, Daveyton and Etwatwa. In Johannesburg, communities supplied by the Commando system experience repeated interruptions. In Tshwane, Bronkhorstspruit’s residents cannot use their tap water due to contamination. The DA’s […]
# Die regering ondersoek 111 gevalle van mense met maagdermsiekte aan die Rhodes-universiteit in Makhanda, asook 23 gevangenes in die St Albans-korrektiewe sentrum in Nelson Mandelabaai, Oos-Kaap. Die aangemelde gevalle ervaar almal simptome soos erge buikkrampe, diarree, braking en dehidrasie. Die woordvoerder vir die Departement van Water en Sanitasie, Wisane Mavasa, sê hulle wag nog […]
# Union federation COSATU in Gauteng has strongly condemned the alleged rape of a nine-year-old Grade 4 learner by an educator at Busisiwe Primary School in Zola, Soweto. The accused educator handed himself over to the police on Wednesday and made his first appearance at the Protea Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where the matter was postponed […]
# KwaZulu-Natal Police have intensified deployments in areas affected by recent attacks on foreign nationals in Durban. This follows several incidents over the past two days, including one in which a foreign national died after allegedly being assaulted by a group of about 50 people in the city centre yesterday. Police spokesperson Robert Netshiunda says […]
# Government has launched an investigation into reported cases of gastrointestinal illness affecting 111 people at Rhodes University in Makhanda and 23 inmates at St Albans Correctional Centre in Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern Cape. Those affected are experiencing symptoms including severe abdominal cramps, diarrhoea, vomiting and dehydration. Department of Water and Sanitation’s spokesperson Wisane Mavasa says […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has apologised and acknowledged a constitutional failure in not addressing the litigation by Simon Mofokeng and the late Tshokolo Joseph Mokoena. The two spent 19 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted for the 1992 murder of a police officer in the Free State. Earlier this week, the Constitutional Court unanimously […]
# Die ANC het sy nasionale voorsitter, Gwede Mantashe, opdrag gegee om verskoning te vra vir opmerkings wat hy oor vroue gemaak het tydens sy Noordwes-veldtog in aanloop tot die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing. In reaksie op ʼn Newzroom Afrika-joernalis se vraag oor seks vir werke, het Mantashe na vroue se geslagsdele verwys. Die ANC sê hy erken […]
# The ANC has instructed its national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, to apologise sincerely for the unfortunate remarks he made about women, while he was campaigning in the North West ahead of the local government elections. Responding to a question by a Newzroom Afrika journalist on sex for jobs, Mantashe referenced female genitalia. The ANC says […]
