Tembisa residents are fed up with the foul smell ... “Our health is seriously at risk, with the rat population growing and invading our homes. We're worried this could lead to diseases." ...

“I don’t even want to say what the rats are doing there, because it is really bad,” she said. Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Department of Health at Tembisa Hospital, Mr Lesibana ...

Cape Town - The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says it is taking measures to prevent the outbreak of bubonic plague in humans after a rat, found in an informal settlement in ...

The issuing of rat cages in hot spots like Tembisa, Thokoza, Katlehong and informal settlements had already proved useful, said Dlamini. "A bucket method was piloted in Phomolong, Tembisa ...

In one of two separate cases of child neglect, a child was found to have been bitten by rats in Tembisa. Two women, aged 22 and 36, have appeared in Tembisa Magistrate’s Court on Monday after ...

says it is taking measures to prevent the outbreak of bubonic plague in humans after a rat, found in an informal settlement in Mayibuye in Tembisa, tested positive for plague antibodies on 16 March.