The pig currently lives – and creates art – at an animal sanctuary in South Africa's Western Cape region.

这头猪目前生活在南非西开普地区的一个动物保护所里，它可以创作艺术品。

The drought plaguing the Western Cape was then declared the worst in a century, and then 2017 ended up becoming even worse.

西开普省的干旱问题当时被宣布为一个世纪以来最严重的干旱，然后到 2017年，情况变得更糟。

And later on, researchers would conclude that this severe of drought was statistically only likely to strike the Western Cape about once every 300 years.

后来，研究人员得出结论，这种严重的干旱在统计上只可能每 300 年袭击西开普省一次。

And this is precisely what began happening to the Western Cape region in the early part of 2015 when the usual rains of the wet season that year didn't materialize.

这正是 2015 年初西开普省开始发生的事情，当时该年雨季的降雨并没有如期而至。

The Women’s League of South Africa’s governing National Congress has highlighted the issue of gang-rape after a teenage victim died in hospital in the Western Cape.

南非妇女联盟执政的全国大会强调了一名青少年受害者在西开普省医院死亡后轮奸的问题。

Cape Town and the Western Cape region was being locally governed by the Democratic Alliance Party, or DA while the national government was being primarily led by the rival African National Congress or ANC.

开普敦和西开普省由民主联盟党在当地管理，而国家政府主要由竞争对手南非非洲人国民大会领导。

The DA led Western Cape government had requested 3 million dollars to increase water infrastructure and supplies back in 2015 immediately before the start of the crisis, but this was rejected by the ANC led national governments.

2015 年危机爆发前，民主联盟党领导的西开普省政府曾要求 300 万美元用于增加水基础设施和供水，但遭到非国大领导的国家政府的拒绝。

That year saw so little rainfall, it became the driest year ever on record for the whole Western Cape province since modern record-keeping began back in 1933 and was potentially the driest year for the province in centuries.

那一年降雨量非常少，成为自 1933 年现代记录保存开始以来整个西开普省有史以来最干旱的一年，也可能是该省几个世纪以来最干旱的一年。