At midnight on Thursday two municipalities failed to pay their water bills. They aren’t unique. Debt is wrecking water and sanitation services
The Botleng wastewater treatment plant, despite its R60-million upgrade, is overgrown
The town is failing to fix pollution, and oil, fats and grease from factories aren’t helping
Once an idyllic place for the people to swim and play, Bronkhorstpruit Dam is now so polluted that it’s not safe for humans
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/ 11 October 2008
Two men have been found guilty of unlawful possession of rhino horns by the Middelburg Regional Court.
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/ 15 November 2007
The initial cause of the diarrhoea outbreak in Delmas was water contamination, said Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla on Thursday. ”When we noticed the outbreak in October, we discovered that the water was contaminated,” he said. However, Makwetla said that more cases were reported after the water was purified.
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/ 2 November 2007
One hundred and fifty people were treated for diarrhoea in the Nkangala area in Delmas since the outbreak last week, Mpumalanga provincial minister of health and social services Sipho Lubisi said on Friday. ”A hundred and fifty cases have been reported to outpatient facilities for treatment. At this point in time, no deaths linked to diarrhoea have been reported.”
Mpumalanga Premier Thabang Makwetla’s office on Friday morning vehemently denied reports that he had to be rescued from a stone-throwing crowd in Delmas the previous afternoon. Makwetla was meeting residents on the typhoid outbreak and was seeking to reassure them that the water in the area was safe to drink.
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/ 23 September 2005
The typhoid outbreak in Delmas, Mpumalanga, was caused by human waste in one of the boreholes, government biologists said on Friday. Vusi Kubheka, a bacteria specialist, said Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid, was found in a borehole in the area. ”Salmonella typhoid is carried in human waste,” he said.
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/ 18 September 2005
It is not yet conclusive that the source of the typhoid outbreak in Delmas was the town’s water, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry said on Saturday. Karin Bosman, the department’s director of water-resource protection and waste, said tests run so far have not shown any presence of the bacteria.
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/ 13 September 2005
One person has died following a typhoid outbreak in the Delmas area in Mpumalanga, a report said on Monday. The latest figures say that 287 cases of typhoid have been reported since the outbreak on August 22. Eighty-nine of the cases have been hospitalised. There are 1 406 people suffering from diarrhoea.
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/ 12 September 2005
Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry Buyelwa Sonjica visited Delmas on Monday to assess the needs arising from a typhoid outbreak. They would also visit nearby clinics and social-service offices, as well as Botleng township’s main source of water.