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The Gauteng health department has appealed to faith-based organisations not to put their members at risk of cholera and to rather conduct their baptisms in safer environments.

Three cases in Gauteng were imported or import-related from Malawi but the increasing number of locally acquired cases is raising concerns

Standards in South Africa, whether it be policing, infrastructure maintenance or service delivery, have slipped too far and for too long

Eleven confirmed cases were recorded in Gauteng, and one person reportedly died.

For more than 16 years, writer and editor Jeremy Gordin lived a block up from me in the suburb of Parkview, Johannesburg.

The Health Department's Foster Mohale said the cholera cases were detected under the City of Johannesburg in Diepsloot and Ekurhuleni.

In total, 11 confirmed cholera cases including one death has been reported since 5 February 2023.

Fighters say ANC’s poor performance has begun to delegitimise the entire political system in eyes of our people

The Department of Health has confirmed four new cholera cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to ten.

According to the department, the latest cases followed baptism ceremonies in the provinces rivers.