Articles for Steve Kretzmann
Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500,000 people
People have to use their social grants to buy electricity to boil dirty water
By Steve Kretzmann and Chris Gilili
News | 22 September 2022
Sewage seeps into Vaal Dam as Mpumalanga water treatment plants fail
Gauteng drinking water could be threatened if crisis is not fixed
Feature | 9 September 2022
River Club construction carries on amidst court delays
Observatory Civic Association says development is violating a court interdict
News | 5 September 2022
Free State drinking water polluted by sewage
Winburg one of many towns in the province with unsafe drinking water
News | 3 August 2022
River Club contempt of court hearing pushed back another week
And a move to depose Tauriq Jenkins as supreme high commissioner of the Goringhaicona Khoi Khoin Indigenous Traditional Council is struck from the urgent roll by High Court
News | 28 July 2022
Half of South Africa’s sewage treatment works are failing
Green Drop report reveals scale of pollution but also clouds the picture
Feature | 21 June 2022
Diarrhoea cases in children surge in Cape Town
This spike comes after several years of improvement. A public health expert is worried that sewage spills might be the cause
Feature | 6 May 2022
City of Cape Town probe into vlei water reveals contaminated samples
Closure of vleis probably prolonged by presence of other pathogens in tests
News | 16 March 2022
Hospital porters protest, block entrance to Groote Schuur
Porters lost their jobs when a new contractor was appointed
By Steve Kretzmann and Marecia Damons
Brief | 1 March 2022