What are the rules on boreholes? Can you use seawater to flush?: GroundUp asked readers to send questions about the water crisis for the City of Cape Town to answer. We selected and edited the best ones. Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson, mayoral committee member for Safety and Security and Social Services JP Smith and City of Cape Town spokesperson Priya Reddy responded.When will a detailed policy and operational plan be published on the Day Zero water collection points? Smith: It must be emphasised that this plan covers more than just the establishment and operation of the water collection points. Much work has been done and the plan is subject to frequent updating in what is a very dynamic environment. Weekly briefings will be held going forward. If we…
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Muslims urged to use as little water as possible for ablutions before prayer: Cape Town’s Islamic community has been urged to save water by using as little as possible when performing mandatory ablutions before prayer. ……
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Diplomat in love triangle: Assault claims laid bare in court: Johannesburg – A Cameroonian diplomat and United Nations humanitarian specialist has been caught in a love triangle that has now escalated into domestic violence. Dr Jonathan Bundzi Ndzi from the UN Population Fund appeared in the domestic violence court in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Monday. There, protection order applications between him, his South African lover and his Zimbabwean girlfriend were being heard. The South African lover, Vivian Wade, accuses the married…
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Vaccine shortage risks life: Durban – Bringing home a healthy baby should be a joyous occasion, but recently it has become stressful for mothers who have left hospital without their newborns getting the all-important Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, which protects the child from severe types of Tuberculosis (TB). One of these was a 19-year-old KwaMashu mother left King Edward VIII hospital without her newborn being vaccinated with BCG. Since being discharged from hospital, she has been in and out of hospitals and clinics, trying to find the vaccine for her days-old baby. The mother gave birth to a baby boy on January 7 at King Edward and also had her appendix removed at the hospital. She was told that she…
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If I’m no good, why make me MP, asks #DeLille: Cape Town – Cape Town’s longest-serving mayor, Patricia de Lille, who has lost the confidence of her own party, has been offered a job as an MP. Sources have informed the Cape Argus that De Lille refused to take up a job in the National Assembly as she argued that, if she was not good enough in the City, she…
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Police get into gunfight with zama-zamas: Johannesburg – Zama-zamas now seem to be armed to the teeth and have resigned themselves to dying violent deaths if needs be. Local police in Boksburg on Monday confiscated four rifles and one pistol after an early morning gun battle that killed three suspected illegal miners’ guards. This was the second incident in three months and in the same area where police were involved in a shootout with suspected zama-zamas. On Monday, the Ekurhuleni Metro Police (EMPD) Tracing and SWAT (Intervention)…
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Borehole rules? Can you use sea water to flush? – The City answers your questions: Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson, mayoral committee member for Safety and Security and Social Services JP Smith and City of Cape Town spokesperson Priya Reddy answer your water questions. ……
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Kimi Makwetu blames infrastructure failures on local corruption: Widespread “rent-seeking and corruption” between public representatives and businesses were at the heart of the infrastructure crisis bedevilling municipalities, warned…
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State capture ‘has two sides’: The South African Communist Party (SACP) says those implicated in state capture should be given a fair chance to give their side…
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‘Blunder changed’ employee definition in minimum wage bill: The narrow definition of workers as “employees” used in the National Minimum Wage Bill was not agreed on when the policy was drafted at the National Economic…
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