South Africans blame city as cholera cases rise

Patient Sello Samuel Lekoto (36), after a visit by South African officials over the death of fifteen people during a Cholera outbreak sits on a bed at Jubilee District Hospital in Hammanskraal, South Africa May 22, 2023 REUTERS/Catherine Schenck

South Africans on Monday blamed their local government for failing to provide clean water as deaths from cholera rose to 15 in the country's most populous province.

The health department in Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday in Hammanskraal, an area about 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of capital Pretoria, in the City of Tshwane.