Makana has finally issued a notice for residents to boil or add bleach to tap water after a new batch of tests found E.coli contamination at Settler’s Hospital, and two public facilities in Joza.
Spokesperson, Anele Mjekula, said the municipality "received water testing results from the resampling" done and "which indicated that there were failures in the water quality, in that the presence of E.coli was detected."
While the death toll in the Hammanskraal cholera outbreak keeps rising, several cases have now been detected in the Free State, and Makana's waters tested positive for E.coli.