NEWS ALERT.......CHOLERA CONFIRMED IN LIMPOPO RIVER

The Limpopo River has tested positive for cholera, a provincial health department spokesperson told Jacaranda FM on Tuesday.

The tests were run on Monday, departmental spokesperson Phuti Seloba told the radio station. It was not yet known the river had been contaminated.

However, Musina residents were expressing concerns about possible contamination nearly two weeks ago as sewage seeped into the river from Beitbridge, Talk Radio 702 reported at the time.

On Tuesday, the North West's health department was placed on alert for a cholera outbreak, said spokesperson Nthabiseng Makhongoana.

She said that to date all cholera cases reported in South Africa had been linked to the Zimbabwe outbreak.



"However, there are communities in South Africa including the North West province that are still vulnerable to the introduction of cholera."

Six people have died in South Africa since the start of the cholera outbreak, two of them South Africans and four Zimbabweans.

The Limpopo health department had treated 438 cases, 150 of them women and 42 children under the age of five, reported Jacaranda FM.

Of the infected people being treated in Musina, 87 percent were Zimbabweans and 12 percent South Africans. Thousands of Zimbabweans have fallen victim to the water-borne disease, which has so far claimed hundreds of lives there.

The United Nations has warned that apart from South Africa cholera is also spreading to another of Zimbabwe's neighbours, Botswana. - Sapa



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Zimbabwean asylum seekers fetch water from a tap in Musina, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. In the past two weeks, nearly 200 Zimbabweans have been treated for Cholera, three of them too late to be saved, at Musina's modest hospital.

Zimbabwean asylum seekers are seen in Musina, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. In the past two weeks, nearly 200 Zimbabweans have been treated for Cholera, three of them too late to be saved, at Musina's modest hospital. 

Scores of Zimbabwean cholera patients, who have crossed into South Africa, desperately hoping to survive the nationwide outbreak that has killed nearly 300 people, use a water point on November 25, 2008 in the South African border town of Musina, where health officials say their local hospital has treated 168 cholera patients so far, with 27 still in hospital. Three people have died in Musina while a fourth died last weekend in the southeastern coastal city of Durban.

Zimbabwean asylum seekers wash themselves in Musina, South Africa, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. In the past two weeks, nearly 200 Zimbabweans have been treated for Cholera, three of them too late to be saved, at Musina's modest hospital.

One of many Zimbabwean cholera patients, who have crossed into South Africa, desperately hoping to survive the nationwide outbreak that has killed nearly 300 people, uses a water point on November 25, 2008 in the South African border town of Musina,

Scores of Zimbabwean cholera patients, who have crossed into South Africa, desperately hoping to survive the nationwide outbreak that has killed nearly 300 people, use a water point on November 25, 2008 in the South African border town of Musina,

Scores of Zimbabwean cholera patients, who have crossed into South Africa, desperately hoping to survive the nationwide outbreak that has killed nearly 300 people, hang out on November 25, 2008 in the South African border town of Musina.

 

MY SAY.

To the West and the ''sanction supporters'' take a good long look at what your isolation of Zimbabwe has produced and all because in 2000 a few white farmers were killed......never mind that  before that ''mugabe'' and his killing machine the 5th Brigade had slaughtered thousands of  Ndebele people in Matebeleland ....in fact there was no international reporting even of it......kinda sends the message to Black Zimbabweans that their lives are worthless and only a handful of whites really matter......


There is an English saying ''keep your friends close and your enemy's even closer'' but not when that enemy is a Black murdering dictator who was so accepted in the international circle and entertained by the West up until 2000 when he made the huge mistake of killing a handful of white farmers......


YOU BUNCH OF MURDERING HYPOCRITES ...EACH ZIMBABWEAN THAT HAS DIED YOU HAVE THEIR BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS.....YOU ARE ALL JUST AS GUILTY AS ''mugabe and his murderers'' ......

YOU HAVE BROUGHT A CURSE TO THE WHITE ZIMBABWEANS WHO REALLY LOVE THEIR COUNTRY AND DON'T SEE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO COLOR .THANKS TO YOUR RACIST REACTION WE ARE NOW ALL JUDGED THE SAME....


THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SPREADING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN ZIMBABWE AND NOW THE REST OF SOUTHERN AFRICA IS THREATENED.....