About a thousand bottles of water-sterilising solution will be donated to people suffering from cholera in Limpopo, the Milton Sterilising Fluid company said on Thursday.
Company spokesperson Zaki Mtshali said five-litre bottles of the sterilising fluid would be handed over to the Gift of the Givers NGO for distribution in the affected municipalities.
Limpopo reported a tenth cholera death on Wednesday, with an additional 2Â 650 people having contracted the waterborne disease since the outbreak began in November last year.
Mtshali said in a statement that the donated litres contained sodium hypochlorite and sodium chloride, which could kill 99,9 % of all known germs, including the vibrio cholerae bacterium.
The donation would amount to about 2,5-million litres of water sterilised and safe for drinking. — Sapa