Weather, news and local business for Vereeniging, Vanderbijlpark, Sasolburg, Meyerton and the towns in between.
File photo: Loch Street, Meyerton (2010). Photo: Ossewa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vereeniging and Meyerton are under a SAWS Yellow Level 2 storm warning from midday, and Sasolburg from 14:00. Here is what that means for water, power, roads and farming.
Small business in the Vaal: the people behind it, the news that hits their tills, and the policies that shape it, in plain English.
Voting stations across Emfuleni, Midvaal and Metsimaholo open at 07:00 on Wednesday. The national security cluster says plans are in place, after a Sasolburg council candidate was shot dead at his home last week.
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Emfuleni says it is working on two outages, in Three Rivers in Vereeniging and in Vanderbijlpark. It has given no time for when power will be back, and a local councillor says some Three Rivers homes have been in the dark since Thursday.
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Police in Sharpeville have opened a murder investigation after a 20-year-old matric learner was stabbed. His mother says he was stabbed after he confronted a man who had hit her with a brick.
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A human rights inquiry says low pressure, burst pipes and repair delays are leaving parts of Emfuleni without dependable water. It also found that the municipality allocated nothing from its capital budget to water and sanitation for two years.
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The South African Weather Service has a severe thunderstorm warning in force over the Vaal this afternoon and evening. For voting day, its charts show only isolated thundershowers.
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SAWS has five severe-thunderstorm warnings and a Red Level 10 veld fire warning in force today. One storm warning lists disruption to “voting activities/processes” among its expected impacts.
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Every SAWS warning in force today with its expiry time, a newest-first stream of time-stamped updates, and what to do if a storm reaches you.
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