Johannesburg - Thirty-one people have died of cholera in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and more than 4,000 are infected with the disease, health authorities said yesterday. Sixty-nine new cases were reported in rural KwaZulu-Natal, bringing the number of cases to 4,007 since the outbreak of the disease in mid-August in the country's most populous province.
Health authorities say they have not yet managed to identify the source of the epidemic, but they suspect it might have originated in neighbouring Mozambique, which had an outbreak of the disease after floods hit the country earlier this year.
