Cape Town – The Democratic Alliance is shocked to learn that the people of Kraaipan in the Ngaka Modiri Molema district municipality in the North West share one tap among 10 000 people, DA MP Leon Basson said on Sunday.

This emerged after the DA conducted oversight of the living conditions of the people of Kraaipan, a village nearly 70km from Mafikeng, he said in a statement.

“It is outrageous and deeply disappointing to stand alongside residents who have to queue at the communal tap and wait their turn to collect water in containers for hours. Some have to then carry the water for kilometres.

“The DA observed on Thursday how schoolchildren walk from tap to tap trying to get water after the school day, hoping to find a working tap,” he said.

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CAPE TOWN – The case against an alleged Gugulethu serial rapist has been remanded to November.

Siyamcela Ntombeni  is accused of raping at least three women along Voortrekker Road.

Police arrested the man last week.

He’ made a brief appearance in the Belville Magistrates Court today.

Ntombeni is charged with three counts of rape and three counts of robbery with aggravating circumstances.

It’s believed he lured female victims on Voortrekker Road by offering them jobs.

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PRETORIA – The Basic Education Department has told teachers to prepare to administer the Annual National Assessment (ANA) exams despite an announcement by five unions that they will not participate in the process.

Sadtu, Naptosa and three other unions earlier today said that in its current form, the assessment is of no value, and it will only administer the exams after a diagnostic tool is remodeled.

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Johannesburg – The ANC is still looking at reducing the number of provinces, legislature and governance committee chairperson Nomaindia Mfeketo said on Monday.

“That policy is at the bottom of trying to find an effective way of making sure that the state is efficient and responsive and much closer to the citizens,” she told reporters in Johannesburg during a discussion on the National General Council documents.

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Cape Town – A property in Cape Town that belonged to the Zimbabwean government was auctioned off for R3.76 million on Monday to cover a legal costs order it owed AfriForum over that country’s land reform programme.

“This was the first time in history that a decision of a human rights tribunal in Africa led to the sale of a property of the country that has been guilty of human rights abuses,” The South African lobby group said.

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