Drought-stricken Cape Town, South Africa, moves up 'day zero' date in April when it could run out of water. Taps are now expected to run dry on April 12.

Premier Zamani Saul announced that 80% of the Northern Cape was affected by drought, while 60% was declared severe drought areas. Despite rainfalls, some parts of the country such as Butterworth ...

PRETORIA, South Africa -- One of the world’s favorite tourism designations, South Africa’s iconic city of Cape Town, has less than a 100 days of water supply left if a drought is not relieved ...

Press Release - One thousand one hundred and fifteen farmers located in critical and extremely critical drought-stricken areas eligible for drought relief received fodder support in April 2021, to ...

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has promised that water will be diverted to drought-stricken areas during the lockdown. She has requested areas, including farming ...

South Africa, the continent’s largest producer of corn, is forecast to get rain in the main growing areas over the next two days, curbing a drought and helping farmers who have started preparing ...

VOSBURG, South Africa — Residents call this drought-stricken community a “forgotten town.” The flat, dusty roads to Vosburg are surrounded by withered fields. The streams feeding the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa on Tuesday declared drought a national disaster after reassessing the "magnitude and severity" in three drought-stricken provinces, including the area around ...

S. African gov't assisting drought-stricken areas: official 0 Comment(s) ... Agricultural production has fallen by 14 percent since the fourth quarter of 2014, according to Statistics South Africa.

Durban – KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nomusa Dube-Ncube has welcomed the declaration of the drought-stricken province as a disaster area by national ...

Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has promised that water will be diverted to drought-stricken areas during the lockdown. She has requested areas, including farming ...