The Department of Water and Sanitation has allocated R230 million to Amatola Water for a period of three years to assist the Eastern Cape to mitigate the effects of drought. ...
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Lush lawns and brimming swimming pools are no longer Cape Town’s guilty pleasures. Two years after South Africa’s second city was on track to become the world’s first to...
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