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Swisher Post on MSN1d
Western Cape dam levels report for Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Western Cape dam levels rose to 64.6% for the week of 17 June 2025, driven by moderate rainfall and steady water usage. Most ...
The South African on MSN1d
Heavy rain fills Western Cape dams, allays fears of ‘Day Zero’
The latest dam level stats for the Western Cape show that cumulatively the six major dams in the province are well above 60% ...
The Citizen2mon
Water department warns of illegal dam wall failures
Says it owns only about 5% of the total number of dams in South Africa, with the vast majority ... In 2012, a dispute regarding an unauthorised dam wall in the Brak River escalated to court ...
The Citizen2mon
Dam wall burst fears eased amid intense flooding in Middelburg [VIDEOS]
Middelburg CPF chair Juanitha Groenewald urged residents and motorists to avoid the area in Middelburg south and Mineralia ... reports that the Kruger Dam wall had burst, DA ward councillor ...
The New York Times4mon
South Africa Is a Warning
to South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest economy, where he had heard that an enterprising young person could make a prosperous life. There, he told me, he was granted asylum as a member of ...
Moneyweb4mon
Clanwilliam dam project has limped along and is now ten years behind schedule
The Clanwilliam Dam, located on the Olifants River, was originally built in 1935 and the dam wall was last raised in the 1960s. The initial feasibility study to raise the Clanwilliam Dam wall was ...
briefly10mon
2 Swartlands People Missing After Riverlands Dam Wall Collapse in Western Cape
Tebogo Mokwena, a Briefly News journalist in Johannesburg, South Africa, covered accidents, fires, outbreaks, nature and natural disaster-related incidents at Daily Sun and Vutivi Business News for ...
AllAfrica.com10mon
South Africa: Media Statement - Riverlands and Chatsworth Wall Collapse Highlights Concerns Around Dam Safety
"The collapse of the Riverlands dam wall is symptomatic of shortcomings ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information items ...
gov.za1y
Water and Sanitation on closure of Lesotho Highlands Water Project
The tunnel system consists of a Transfer Tunnel, linking Katse Dam with Muela Power Station and Muela Dam, and a Delivery Tunnel, linking Muela Dam with the Ash River Outfall Works between Clarens and ...
sanews1y
Kempsdale Dam wall expansion to ensure reliable water supply
Water and Sanitation Minister, Senzo Mchunu, is looking forward to the start of construction to raise the Kempsdale Dam Wall from four meters to 7.8 meters in Kokstad, KwaZulu-Natal. According to the ...
Africa Check1y
Nandoni dam in South Africa’s Limpopo province? No, photo of famous Hoover dam in the US
A photo of the massive Hoover dam in the US is going viral on social media with the claim it shows the Nandoni dam in South Africa’s Limpopo province ... is famous for its size. The dam wall is 60 ...