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Two months ago, we reported that police statistics indicated the Eastern Cape was the most dangerous province in SA. This report occasioned protest from the provincial government which, naturally, keenly guards this province’s image. Statistics can be misleading. A day spent in Cape Town’s gang-infested Cape Flats or inner Johannesburg is potentially more dangerous than one in Vincent Heights or Beacon Bay.
Residents will be left high and dry after power failures in Nahoon and leaks at the uMzonyana treatment works caused water outages across the metro. In an official statement, Buffalo City Metro said they had begun throttling the water system so that “water can go around as wide as possible” on Friday afternoon.
Having just begun to recover from the devastation of recent floods, Buffalo City residents on Tuesday were suddenly faced with water outages throughout the city. The metro released a statement explaining that the outages, which it said affected Vincent, Vincent Heights, Beacon Bay, Gonubie, Amalinda, Buffalo Flats, Vergenoeg and Scenery Park; were the result of the flash floods dramatically increasing the turbidity of the city’s water which caused sediment to clog up the filters and restrict ...