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With little maintenance, old water pipelines break and leak all the time, wasting money the Victor Khanye municipality doesn’t have. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SA’s water debt grows by R8-million every 24 hours

At midnight on Thursday two municipalities failed to pay their water bills. They aren’t unique. Debt is wrecking water and sanitation services

Bongani Khumalo chops wood in the sewage-polluted wetland, which he then sells. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Raw sewage flows as little changes

The Botleng wastewater treatment plant, despite its R60-million upgrade, is overgrown

The treatment plant is not designed to treat water from factories that discharge fats, and sewerage pipe continue to leak. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

R72-million later and Delmas’s sewerage scandal still stinks

The town is failing to fix pollution, and oil, fats and grease from factories aren’t helping

(John McCann)

Gauteng’s green dam choked by sewage

Once an idyllic place for the people to swim and play, Bronkhorstpruit Dam is now so polluted that it’s not safe for humans

Rhino horns land two men in hot water

Two men have been found guilty of unlawful possession of rhino horns by the Middelburg Regional Court.

Delmas diarrhoea started with water contamination

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…

Diarrhoea in Delmas affects 150 people

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…

Premier ‘not whisked away’ from typhoid protest

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.…

Human waste caused Delmas typhoid outbreak

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…

Typhoid: ‘People are carriers, not water’

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…

Delmas typhoid outbreak claims first victim

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…

Health minister visits typhoid town

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…

Two Mail staff found guilty

Weekly Mail Reporter Two Weekly Mail journalists, co-editor Anton Harber and freelance reporter Jo-Anne Bekker, were this week found guilty of contempt of court for three…