Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa will put together a team to help prepare for the possibility that Cape Town will run out of water soon, he told CNN reporter Christiane Amanpour in Davos, Switzerland, this week. "Climate change is a reality," said Ramaphosa, in the interview on Thursday. "If people around the world, specifically South Africa, ever thought that climate change is just a fable or a fiction, we in South […]
As the impact of the drought looms, the premier of the Western Cape, Helen Zille, has written to President Jacob Zuma requesting that the Western Cape be declared a national disaster area and to assist with the handling of the water crisis in the province. She further outlined the interventions which will be adopted in order to prevent Day Zero. Zille asserted the need to adequately asses the nightmare that […]
After 200 years of making beer‚ Newlands Brewery in Cape Town is going into the water business. Queues at the brewery’s spring‚ where free water can be collected‚ have become almost unmanageable as the reality of Day Zero has dawned on Capetonians. Now South African Breweries “has indicated its willingness to assist in the bottling and distribution of water drawn from the Newlands spring”‚ according to a statement on Sunday […]
The severity of Cape Town’s drought crisis has led to the city wanting to implement level 6b water restrictions on February 1st. Mayor Patricia de Lille, has admitted that Day Zero on the 22nd of April, when the taps run dry, is now very likely. Next month’s 50-litre a day per person limit is down from the 87 litres a day, which most Capetonians have failed to achieve. De Lille […]
The City of Cape Town in the Western Cape has drilled its first test borehole in Mitchells Plain in hopes that the earth’s natural underground reservoirs will provide much needed water for the province. Cape Town’s Mayor Patricia De Lille attended the drilling tests into the Cape Flats Aquifer for additional water supply and said the city hopes to gain an additional 150 million litres of water per day from […]
By Yaseen Kippie Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille announced today that day zero of the water availability in Cape Town has been moved from March 2018 to 13 May 2018. De Lille was at a Maitland collection point set up for day zero. She thanked Capetonians for their efforts in reducing water consumption. With the dams currently at 36.8%, day zero will usher in when dams are below 13.5%, […]
The water crisis in the Western Cape will lead to war and deaths unless urgent steps are taken soon, Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu) said on Wednesday. "We know that we have asked for you to step down, but whilst you are still president we bring this urgent matter to your attention," the trade union said in a short open letter to President Jacob Zuma. "The rich have […]
The City of Cape Town said on Monday disaster planning was underway to ensure measures were in place for the possibility of an extended drought. "[We] continue planning for the implementation of contingency and emergency measures in conjunction with the National Department of Water and Sanitation," MMC for water and waste services Xanthea Limberg said in a statement. On March 3 Mayor Patricia de Lille declared the city a disaster […]
Cosatu in the Western Cape plans to go on strike over what it calls the City of Cape Town's failure to address the water crisis. The labour union will file an application for legal protest action with the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). In a statement on Thursday, Cosatu said the city has failed to decrease water consumption. "The rich have more than enough money to pay fines […]
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