Water shortages have become a very real reality for the residents of the neighbouring towns of Sundra, Rietkol and Eloff in Mpumalanga. The towns have been experiencing regular periods in which the water just stops flowing, for a year now . Local resident, Derek Bester, says water supply is unequal and sporadic with lower lying parts left without water for hours per day, and higher parts left without water for weeks at a time.
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Water Shortages Arrived in Mpumalanga Towns To Stay – Sundra, Eloff and Rietkol Have Sporadic Water For A Year Now
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#TheAfricanWay: Orange Free State Too Dangerous To Live in? Winburg & Kroonstad Have Dead Pigs & Raw Sewage in River & Dam, Too Polluted to Purify!
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Winburg and Kroonstad’s water has become so polluted that it is not possible to purify it with chemicals anymore. The water supplied in the pipe system and coming out of taps in the towns has become so polluted by raw sewage, that it has become impossible to drink because of the serious health hazard.
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Unpalatable brown water pours from taps in Parys due to many years of poor maintenance and neglect by the incompetent ANC-regime
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“When people wash their clothes, they come out dirtier than before. There is no healthy water to drink,” she said. A resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said, “We have been promised better water but nothing changes. We don’t have a choice but to drink it and use it on a daily basis. Even though..
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VIVA ANC! Bethal has been without water for 26 consecutive days after ANC takeover
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FF Plus is about to put a complaint in at the Human Rights Commission (HRC) after large parts of ANC-controlled Bethal, Mpumalanga’s taps have already been dry for 26 consecutive days. The problems of the Govan Mbeki local municipality apparently arose just a month after the ANC took over the municipality after the local by-election..
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Holidaymakers need to drive careful this festive season, the country’s roads are dangerous because of increased potholes caused by heavy rain
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Water flowing in streets and roads looks like small rivers and is becoming dangerous because of increasing potholes that can damage vehicle tires. Several incidents have already occurred from potholes that are invisible due to the water on the driving surface, and tires are damaged which means a tire needs to be replaced in the..
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Huge water crisis looming in Greater Pretoria area – several black residential areas, including squatter camps in the area can be left without water
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The Pretoria municipality calls on residents to use water sparingly to avoid an enormous crisis. The city’s storage tanks reached dangerously low levels due to high demand during the heat wave, which lasted several days. According to the government’s Twitter message, which only reaches about 60% of residents, residents are urged not to waste water…
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Call to save water in Gauteng: Day Zero is becoming more and more a reality after no rain falls and dam levels drop dangerously
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Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation (DWS), expressed her concern after the rain stayed away and dam levels dropped dangerously fast. She made a plight that people must immediately start saving water to avert a possible Day Zero in Gauteng. She announced in Johannesburg on Monday that Gautengers use an average of..
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All I can say is ‘God help us’ – Photos of Vaal River that shows how raw sewage is polluting our drinking water
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Photos of the Vaal River in Vereeniging at 06h00 today 24th Oct 2019. This is our only Vaal River. There is no substitute and it will soon be impossible to fix. If you think no electricity is an inconvenience then wait for no water. 3 days and you’re dead. This is a national emergency people..
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Empty promises leave Free State residents fuming, Mayor’s house burnt down due to frustration on water crisis
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Mayor Mamiki Mokoena, of the Nketoana municipality, which includes Reitz, Petrus Steyn, Arlington and Lindley in the Free State, house in Petrus Steyn has been destroyed after angry residents burnt it down to show their anger towards the shortage of water in the areas. Residents’ anger over the ongoing water crisis has apparently boiled over..
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ANC-managed Victor Khanye municipality apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m to electricity – residents now demand to know who are the culprits stealing all the money
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“We all pay our municipal bills regularly, who are stealing all the money”, is the question now asked by Delmas and local residents after it became known that millions of rand are in arrears on water and electricity. The Victor Khanye municipality, which includes Delmas, apparently owes more than R100m to water, and about R46m..
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EFF defends call for land occupations: “We will intensify our struggle for expropriation of land without compensation … It’s not likely to get easier for anyone”
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EFF Gauteng Provincial Head, Mandisa Mashego, has denied that the EFF’s call for land occupations has impeded on the City of Johannesburg’s ability to provide basic services in Alexandra. Mashego was responding to an allegation made by former MEC of Human Settlements Dikgang Uhuru Moiloa at a prior sitting of the Alexandra inquiry on 15..
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ANC –regime states that water supply in SA is sufficient to meet all demands although sewage pollution and no maintenance of municipal structures wastes millions of liters of water
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South Africa has enough water to provide the residents within the winter months, but then it must be used sparingly. This is according to ANC government spokesman who also states that the water is sufficient to meet the needs during the coming dry months of the year. However, experts are much more concerned about the..
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Minister sued for R500,000 for unpaid power and water bill
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Lindiwe Sisulu is allegedly sued by the City Council of Johannesburg for unpaid water and power bill worth R500,000. The account is believed to be a home in Bellevue and the outstanding account was canceled by an ANC official in 2015 so that Sisulu could obtain a tax clearance document to sell the house. A..
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Cyril, are you the next Robert Mugabe, you might not like to compensate white farmers and don’t care if we are murdered, but, you need us in order to feed your people:- Thousands of white farmers to receive compensation for land in Zimbabwe
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It’s a historic day for thousands of white farmers in Zimbabwe: The government have agreed to compensate landowners affected by land reform policies. Zimbabwe’s Finance and Agriculture Department have confirmed that they have begun the process to compensate the white farmers who were dispossessed of their properties, following the brutal implementation of land reform policies..
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Now taxpayers must suffer for maladministration and corrupted Govan Mbeki Municipality – Taps run dry in Bethal after municipality fails to pay R87.7m water bill
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The taps ran dry in Bethal, Mpumalanga, in December when Rand Water Board reduced water pressure by 40% for non-payment of an R87.7-million back-bill owed by the Govan Mbeki Municipality. More than half the town is reckoned to be without water. Residents are furious because they have paid their water bills, and want to know..
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