KIMBERLEY – The Sol Plaatje Municipality has provided an update regarding the water interruption in areas supplied by the Newton Reservoirs. The municipality’s technical team completed the cleaning of two clarifiers at the Riverton Water Treatment Works yesterday, and will now proceed with the desludging of the additional two clarifiers today. Residents in the Kimberley […]
Following yesterday’s last-minute announcement by the Sol Plaatje Municipality on a water shutdown from 17:00 to 04:00 on Saturday, residents of Kimberley woke up to low water pressure this morning. Chris Whittaker, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Councillor of Ward 24 of the Sol Plaatje Municipality, stated that according to the municipality, the water supply from […]
SOUTH AFRICA – Renaldo Gouws has raised an important question: where is the IEC South Africa in the face of threats and violence from a political party? Gouws’ comment comes after The Cape Independent reported that the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) had issued a threat to a Jewish school, demanding its closure and implying the […]
SOUTH AFRICA – Ernst Roets, Head of Policy of the Solidarity Movement, recently took to social media, specifically X (formerly Twitter), to express concerns over a notice quietly published in the South African government gazette. According to Roets, the notice outlines strict racial requirements that farmers must comply with before being permitted to export their […]