Police clash with Coronationville residents in protests over water supply
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at Coronationville protests as residents clashed with authorities over the ongoing lack of water in their community.
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Rand Water 72-hour water blackouts to affect these parts of Gauteng
Rand Water will reduce pumping from 15 to 18 July 2025, causing water outages across several Gauteng municipalities.
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Four-day water blackout looms for parts of Ekurhuleni next week
Rand Water has confirmed that parts of Ekurhuleni will be without water for four days starting Thursday, 29 May 2025.
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Bedfordview residents protest over widespread Joburg water outages
Bedfordview residents protest after going nine days without water, demanding answers from Rand Water amid ongoing supply issues across Johannesburg.
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Vereeniging and these Gauteng suburbs affected by Rand Water outage
A power outage at Rand Water’s Lethabo Pumping Station has caused major water disruptions in Gauteng, affecting multiple municipalities, including Vereeniging and Johannesburg.
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Water outages force Gauteng High Court to shut down
Gauteng High Court was forced to shut down due to ongoing water outages in Johannesburg, as Rand Water warns of critically low reservoir levels.
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Rand Water completes 86-hour Johannesburg water maintenance
While Eikenhof resumed pumping late on Monday evening, the gradual recovery of reservoirs means some areas will continue to experience water outages in the short term.
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Prolonged water outages announced for parts of Johannesburg in December
Johannesburg faces water outages starting Friday, 13 December 2024 due to Rand Water maintenance. Areas like Soweto, Randburg, and Parktown will experience disruptions for up to 86 hours.
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Rand Water rubbishes reports of ‘poisoned’ Vaal water
The chain messages, which have spread rapidly on platforms like WhatsApp, claim that residents should avoid drinking or cooking with tap water due to a supposed poisoning incident involving “Indians pouring poison” into the dam.
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Teboho Joala murder suspects unmasked in court
The suspects involved in the murder of Rand Water executive Teboho Joala appeared in court, on Monday. Here’s the latest on the case.
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Police want these two persons of interest in Teboho Joala murder
Police have identified two persons of interest, a development that has restored life to the Teboho Joala murder investigation.
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Rand Water executive shot and killed during back-to-school campaign
Tragedy strikes at Rand Water’s back-to-school campaign in Johannesburg as an executive is fatally shot in an unexpected attack.
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Johannesburg water shutdown: Residents advised to heed these warnings’
Following the successful completion of a planned water shutdown, Johannesburg residents are advised to take heed of these warnings.
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Rand Water names and shames these debt-owing municipalities
Rand Water blasted the City of Tshwane and these other debt-owing municipalities over unpaid bills exceeding R4 billion.
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Rand Water warns of Gauteng reservoir blackout if loadshedding persists
If loadshedding continues at escalated stages, Rand Water warned, then Gauteng’s supply and purification systems could “drop to a point of [crashing] and [become] almost impossible [to] recover.”