ELECTIONS CORONAVIRUS: Your daily update
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille has called on members of the public to avoid preventable diseases which she says are caused by an unhealthy life styles.
Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane says it's important to consider all strategies to obtain additional water.
A Northern Cape Mining Trust has partnered with the health department to roll-out health services to poor communities.
Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane is addressing the Cape Town Press Club on the current water crisis in the Western Cape.
The Disaster Management team is briefing the media on the water crisis in the Western Cape.
Police in Durban have confiscated dagga worth over R400,000 and arrested three people, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Saturday. Provincial drug unit members were on crime prevention duties when they received information about drugs at Newlands West at about 6am on Saturday morning, Captain Nqobile Gwala said. “The members intensified their operation and identified the said […]
As Cape Town braces itself for "Day Zero"- the day when the taps will run dry - some communities in Durban are rallying together to make a difference in the name of Ubuntu.
The City of Cape Town has warned that it will not be easy to manage anticipated long queues at about 200 water collection points around the city when taps run dry on the 12th of April.
The Port of Durban has welcomed the world's most technologically advanced marine research vessel, The Doctor Fridtjof Nansen.
Gauteng residents can expect showers and thundershowers in the province this weekend.
The Philippines is bracing for a possible three-month-long emergency in areas around an erupting volcano, which has already displaced more than 81 000 and led to overcrowded temporary shelters, the disaster agency said on Friday. Mount Mayon in central Albay province remained at alert level 4, a notch below the highest level, as it continued […]
Water is an essential driving force of life and a basic human right but not all South Africans have access to the clear liquid gold. In Durban Deep on the Westrand of Johannesburg, parents have become so frustrated at the lack of clean water for their children that they have resorted to vandalism. On Thursday, protesters […]
The Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) Metro might be forced to increase the water tariffs to control the high volume of water usage if the water situation deteriorates. Executive Mayor Athol Trollip, along with municipality officials and various religious leaders, visited one of the Churchill supply dams outside Humansdorp to pray for rain. “The Metro’s dams […]
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says government's strategy to combat rhino poaching has contributed to the decrease in the illegal trade.
Ebola, zika, SARS: a century after the "Spanish flu" killed 50 million people, humanity now risks a new wave of deadly diseases, and in today's globalised world another such pandemic may be unavoidable, experts warned at the Davos summit this week.
Environmental Affairs minister Edna Molewa reports on progress made last year with regard to successful conviction of rhino poachers and smugglers.
Life Esidimeni hearings arbitrator Justice Dikgang Moseneke says former Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu should have at least listened to family members of the victims of the Esidimeni tragedy when they protested against the transfer of their relatives to NGOs.
Just one cigarette a day carries nearly half the risk for heart attack and stroke as smoking a full pack of 20, according to a large-scale study published Thursday. “If someone smokes one cigarette instead of 20 per day, intuitively we’d think that the risk drops to 1/20, or five percent,” said lead author Allan […]
A Tactical Joint Operation Centre, also known as the Nerve Centre, has been launched at Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.
A bulk water supply project in Loeriesfontein in the Northern Cape is expected to be completed within the next five months.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane says he is not satisfied with the manner in which the City of Cape Town municipality has dealt with the water crisis, particularly the communication aspect.
The Western Cape government has moved into overdrive to ensure that schools remain open amid the biggest water crisis in the country.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on Wednesday called for Cape Town to introduce emergency by-laws for groundwater sharing when the city becomes the first in the world to run dry after water restrictions become insufficient amid a three-year drought.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane is on Wednesday expected to brief the media in Cape Town on the party's programme of action to prevent Day Zero, the day when taps will run dry.
Twitter Inc’s Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned to join online lender Social Finance Inc (SoFi) as its chief executive officer. His departure comes at a time when the social media company is in the middle of a turnaround plan, sending the shares of the owner of microblogging site down as much as 3.9 […]
A powerful earthquake of 7.9 magnitude struck off the coast of Alaska early Tuesday, prompting tsunami warnings or watches as far away as California.
As the World Economic Forum kicks off in the Swiss ski-resort of Davos, the town is experiencing the heaviest snow-fall in 20 years.
Minister of Communications, Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane, briefs Parliament's Portfolio Committee on the implementation of Broadcasting Digital Migration (BCM) policy; the appointment of senior executives at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC); the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on its compliance monitoring framework and licence conditions by broadcasters.
Western Cape Premier Helen Zille says says Day Zero is unavoidable and urged Western Cape consumers to save water.
Former Gauteng MEC Qedani Mahlangu says the decision to terminate their contract with Life Esidimeni was not her's alone but that of a collective.
