A road trip through the Eastern Cape takes Sophy Roberts far from the tourist trail — and to a former leper colony reborn as ...

As of Friday, 16 January, Knysna’s Akkerkloof Dam – the town’s main source of water – was around 15% full, which, at the current consumption and wastage rate, means the town has just 10 days before ...

The Knysna Municipal Council has officially resolved to declare the Garden Route town a local disaster area as the region faces an intensifying water shortage. The decision follows urgent warnings ...

The Akkerkloof Dam is sitting at around 18 percent capacity, with just 15 days of water left. This is compounded by long term neglect of maintenance of water infrastructure, high non-revenue water and ...

Residents in parts of Knysna in the Western Cape are facing an escalating water crisis as dam levels drop, infrastructure failures persist, and consumption remains well above target, Democratic ...

Knysna’s peak holiday season has been overshadowed by a deepening water crisis, forcing visitors to trade long baths for short showers. The Western Cape town, one of the province’s tourism gems, has ...

Two-minute showers, a ban on hose-pipe use and many of us simply choosing to concrete over our lawns... Memories of Cape Town's 2017 drought are still fresh in the minds of many Capetonians, and now ...

Officials are warning there may be less than two weeks of usable water left. With water supply at critical levels, authorities say high seasonal demand and panic storing aren't helping. Knysna mayor ...

Some 150 million years ago, Europe was tropical — and mostly underwater. The entire continent was closer to the equator than it is today, and what is now Germany and its neighbouring countries was ...

When it rains, it pours — and that is exactly what happened on the water-starved Garden Route, with Knysna alone recording 43.6mm in 24 hours. And though Thursday's downpour brought some relief after ...

Knysna, one of South Africa’s prominent semigration hotspots, is facing a water crisis that is threatening the long-term sustainability of the coastal town. Western Cape Local Government MEC Anton ...

Knysna received much-needed rainfall on Thursday morning, offering temporary respite to a municipality facing an acute water crisis with approximately a week of water supply remaining in the ...