South Africans blame city as cholera cases rise
Hammanskraal, South Africa Reuters South Africans on Monday blamed their local government for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in the country’s most populous province. The health department in Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday in Hammanskraal, an area about 50 kilometres north of capital Pretoria, in […]
Driver charged after 15 killed in Johannesburg tanker explosion
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The death toll from a gas tanker that exploded in Johannesburg on Saturday has nearly doubled to 15, authorities said, adding that they’d arrested the driver and charged him with culpable homicide. The blast, which tore the roof off the emergency department at the Tambo Memorial hospital, destroyed two houses, several cars […]
South African Government plans troop surge to quell unrest – reports
Durban, South AfricaReuters South Africa plans to deploy up to 25,000 soldiers in two provinces where security forces are struggling to quell days of looting, arson and violence, its defence minister told a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, according to local news channel eNCA. A military surge of that size would increase tenfold the number of […]