JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Water and Sanitation is opening four more sluice gates at the Vaal Dam. The dam is currently sitting at 118-percent capacity.

Hundreds of different boats formed part of the Vaal River reopening launch. Photo: Sifiso Jimta. VANDERBIJLPARK – After months of battling a severe water lettuce contamination that threatened to ...

Just southeast of Johannesburg, in a South African region known as the Vaal Triangle, 1.7 million people are living in a crossfire of some of the most dangerous pollution on Earth. From the highway ...

Just 48km from Johannesburg, in a region known as the Vaal Triangle, 1.7 million people are living in a crossfire of some of the most dangerous pollution on Earth.

An hour south of Johannesburg, the Vaal River City interchange and link road projects are under construction – part of a R21 billion mega-project intended to revitalise and rejuvenate the Vaal ...

NGO wins court order against ministers to stop Vaal River sewage pollution By Sheree Bega South Africa’s new police minister, Senzo Mchunu ...

The Emfuleni Municipality in Gauteng and the Mpumalanga province issued flood warnings today after main rivers began overflowing. Heavy rains resulted in overflowing on the Vaal river in Emfuleni, the ...

The report emphasised the importance of the Vaal water system, with about 19 million South Africans relying on it for water security, and found the pollution in the Vaal River affected natural ...

Broken sewerage systems and failing wastewater treatment works in Emfuleni, which includes Vereeniging, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, and Vanderbijlpark, have polluted the Vaal River to the extent that ...

Broken sewerage systems and failing waste water treatment works in Emfuleni, which includes Vereeniging, Sharpeville, Sebokeng, and Vanderbijlpark, have polluted the Vaal River to the extent that ...

In Vereeniging, the sickening stench of sewage wafts all the way down a road that leads to a series of luxury estates set on the banks of the Vaal river.

VEREENIGING. – Five men in their 30s have drowned after their boat capsized on the Vaal River near Spider Valley Road on Saturday.