Aid agencies are scrambling to treat thousands of cholera patients in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, where the number of infections is mounting by over 250 per day. Most patients are from the city’s various urban slums, where open...
Harmony Gold, the world’s fifth-largest gold producer, is to appeal against a North Gauteng High Court ruling that it continue paying for pumping water from a West Rand mine it sold in 2008, CEO Graham Briggs told Business Day last Friday. An...
Contaminated water and increases of deadly substances in drinking water are increasingly becoming the silent assassin of people in South Africa, especially the marginalised in rural areas. Contaminated water already claimed victims. In 2008 the...
Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government is searching for a solution to the recurring problem of water-borne disease. Getting clean water in some parts of Zimbabwe is a luxury. The country was once tipped as one of the most prosperous in Africa with a...
