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Water shortages: FS communities barely getting by

Water shortages: FS residents barely getting by

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Free State residents are reaching the end of their tether as they search for water – life’s most basic natural resource. Clinics have also been severely affected while patients scurry to find facilities that aren’t water-stricken. The suburb of Moemaneng…

Molefi Sompane
October 5, 2022

Typhoid fever: Access to testing remains a huge challenge

Determinants Of Health, Health, News

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) confirmed that access to testing for typhoid fever remains a huge challenge in many parts of South Africa. So far, two outbreaks have been reported as concerns about the quality of drinking water…

LililtaG
February 25, 2022

Water woes in Limpopo make Covid-19 prevention difficult

Determinants Of Health, News

Heavy rains have damaged already inadequate water infrastructure in Vhembe in Limpopo. The long wait for running water is making it impossible for community members to follow hygiene-based anti-Covid-19 practices like washing hands.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
March 15, 2021

Department blames stalled merger for pit toilets in Limpopo primary school

News

Learners at a primary school in Vhembe, Limpopo are still using pit toilets. The department of education blames a failed plan to merge schools.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
December 14, 2020

Amalooloo Waterless Sanitation System Solution for Pit Latrines

This new technology can help South African schools still struggling with pit latrines

News

The Amalooloo Waterless Sanitation System brings safe and sustainable sanitation to learners around the country. The technology offers a solution to areas and schools that do not have access to water.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
November 27, 2020

World Toilet Day: Nothing to celebrate for this Limpopo school, without toilets and water

News

19 November marks World Toilet Day, highlighting the importance of safe sanitation. Yet, some rural schools still have to contend with dangerous pit toilets.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
November 19, 2020

Limpopo learners back to school amid concerns over Covid-19 preparedness

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As learners return to the classroom in Limpopo, the basic education department says measures like staggered timetables will help prevent Covid-19. Still, school governing bodies concerned over sanitation and infrastructure.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
August 24, 2020

Flowing sewage in Limpopo taxi rank is a major health hazard

News

Thohoyandou residents say they are fed up with the lack of urgency the Vhembe District Municipality shows in repairing burst sewerage pipes.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
November 11, 2019

Residents forced to find solutions to cope with full pit latrines

Our Health

"You can’t use that toilet when it's warm, the smell sticks to your clothes so we go by timetable," Ntshiuoa Chobane tells Health-e.

Teboho
August 28, 2019

Sewage-polluted streets plague community

Our Health

Residents choke on the stench of contaminated water overflowing onto their streets despite reporting it to the City of Cape Town.

Imameleng Masitha
August 15, 2019

Water crises sweep country

News

Forget power cuts. What is happening to our water supply is much more serious. After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, corruption and indifference, South Africans are vulnerable to medieval, water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.

healthe
March 26, 2019

Water crises sweep country

Health

After two decades of little or no maintenance of municipal sewerage plants, South Africans are vulnerable to water-borne diseases and something even more serious: thirst.

healthe
March 26, 2019

Pit latrines stench headache for Mangaung metro

Our Health

Pit latrines around the Mangaung Metro Municipality are standing overfull and stinking because there are not enough draining trucks to sort out the problem.

Teboho
January 24, 2019

Sibasa Clinic toilets fixed as Vhembe cleaners remain unpaid

News

LIMPOPO – After weeks of patients and staff having the use of only a single toilet at Sibasa clinic in Makwarela, outside Thohoyandou, an expose by Health-e News has prompted action by the Department of Health.

NdivhuwoMukwevho
December 6, 2018

Equal Education marches to Department of Education

News

Five years after pledges were made to address sanitation issues in Gauteng schools, still there are schools with more than 51 learners poor toilet, broken toilets, broken taps, toilet doors that don’t lock and schools with more than 400 children per cleaner.

jamesthabo
December 3, 2018

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