As the water levels of the Vaal dam reach 101.51%, the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) has reduced the outflow of water from 61.2 cubic metres a second (mᵌ/s) to 40 mᵌ/s as inflows ...

Residents speak to 'The Citizen' about the fear and destruction they experienced while floods hit parts of Johannesburg.

THE Archæology Survey of the Union of South Africa has recently published a pamphlet entitled "Early Man in the Vaal River Basin"(Archæology Series, No. 6. Pretoria : Government Printer ...

The Vaal Dam, boosted by above-average rainfall, surged past more than 97.8% on Wednesday and is now almost full. The dam, which has an additional flood-absorption capacity of 26%, is being ...

Recently, water lettuce has invaded one of South Africa's most important rivers, the Vaal River, on the border of ... pan in the northern Kruger National Park. Since then, it has been used to ...

"The Vaal Dam has eight valves in total that are used for river releases. On normal day-to-day releases, [it uses two valves ranging from 16.8 mᵌ/s to 17.6 mᵌ/s], in order to keep a natural ...