LIMPOPO - The death of a young boy from rural Vhembe who drowned in a river after deciding to swim in order to cool down as sparked official warnings from the Limpopo Department of Health, urging people not to swim in local rivers.
As Limpopo residents continue to battle water challenges due to the continuous drought, the new Thulamela Mayor, Avhashoni Tshifhango, said he is going to prioritise water supply to all the villages which fall under his municipality.
Municipalities' inability to manage waste water and repair pipes is threatening our survival
SAHR 2016: Sewage, acid mine drainage and climate change threaten the purity of our water supply.
Following weeks of allegedly sporadic access to water in Mabopane’s Central View north of Pretoria, work to upgrade local water lines has been completed.
Residents of the small, rural Mpumalanga town of Vezinyawo said they were told to pay R2 to keep a municipal water pump working after the municipality would not pay R200 for prepaid electricity, residents allege.
With the construction of a promised dam delayed, residents of Kestell, Free State say that the lack of water risks their lives and their livelihoods.
The Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) at Rhodes Univeristy has released an analysis of national and provincial efforts to improve access to housing, focusing on the Eastern Cape.
Despite flattering statistics presented by government about community access to water and sanitation, many communities experience “a starkly different reality.”
One Hammanskraal family’s poor living conditions could be exacerbating their son’s chronic skin condition as they continue to wait for government housing.
A blocked manhole in the yard of a Jouberton family has remained unattended, and the family has lived in a stinking - and what it believes is an unhealthy - environment for nine weeks.
Residents of Goutrou, the newest and largest informal settlement in Victoria West, is home to more than 450 households.
Locations on the outskirts of Lusikisiki haven’t had water for almost two weeks. The affected areas are Newtown, Joe Slovo, Arthur Homes and Katilumle.
Matavhela Clinic in Vhembe has had no running water for three weeks.
Hardly twenty days after he promised to deliver water to Donald Frazer Hospital, Vhembe Executive Mayor Tshitereke Matibe has lived up to his promise by having a borehole drilled at the hospital.
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