By Ragheema Mclean The City of Cape Town has announced plans to deal with the 32 million litres of raw sewage currently being released into the Atlantic Ocean every day. This follows an ongoing public outcry and concerns raised regarding huge sewage plumes floating off the coast, particularly near Camps Bay, where more than two million litres of sieved raw sewage is discharged into the sea daily. This discharge is […]
With dam levels on the up due to the copious amounts of rainfall Cape Town has experienced over the last two weeks, residents around the metro have wondered how water tariffs will be affected. Speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Wednesday morning, Mayco member for Water and Sanitation, Xanthea Limberg said a determination of tariff costs can be expected at the end of the hydrological cycle in October. Furthermore, Limberg […]
South Africa's government remains resolute in working together with affected provinces, municipalities and the private sector to alleviate the impact of on-going drought in parts of the country, the department of water and sanitation (DWS) said on Wednesday. It said while there had been some recovery in large parts of the country since late 2017 into 2018, the impact of the drought would take longer to turn around due to […]
Cape Town's strict Level 6B water restrictions will remain in place, at least until the end of August, and will not be relaxed to a less severe level, the Department of Water and Sanitation said on Friday. Regional head of the Department of Water and Sanitation Rashid Khan said, after a high-level meeting on Friday to discuss the possibility of relaxing the restrictions, that the pace at which the Western […]
The Department of Water and Sanitation is expected to hold a high-level meeting on Friday to assess whether the severe water restrictions in Cape Town and surrounding areas can be relaxed. Regional head of the department Rashid Khan said on Thursday that there had been requests from users of the Western Cape Water Supply System, including the City of Cape Town, irrigation boards and organised agriculture, to reassess the water […]
The department of water and sanitation is broke. The critical department is now R4.3 billion in the red, leaving hundreds of contractors unpaid for at least seven months. Senior executives from National Treasury, the department and a key water board told City Press a few days ago that Cabinet should place it under administration because “internal controls, project management and contract management have collapsed”. The situation has become so dire […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
