Alta Pretorius News Today

The Department of Water and Sanitation is investigating the sewage spilling manhole in the Vaal River. It has also issed a directive to Ngwathe Local Municipality to stop polluting the river.



Civil Rights group Afriforum says the deadly water-borne Cholera bacteria has been detected in the Vaal River.

AfriForum and Save Ngwathe took water samples from the Vaal river near Parys and they have tested positive for cholera.

Civic organisation groups AfriForum and Save Ngwathe say that water samples taken from the Vaal river in Parys have tested positive for cholera as they confirmed that a resident from Vredefort became the first person in the Free State to succumb to the disease.

The Hermanus Business Chamber invites everyone to their first event of the year.

Residents protest over unsafe water and set JoJo tanks on fire in Tumashole and Schonkenville in Parys, the Free State