Sipho Kings
Sipho Kings is a former acting editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian
Water services worse than in 1994 
/ 31 January 2020

Water services worse than in 1994 

More than 5.3-million households and 21-million people don’t have clean water, despite money being spent on dams and pipelines to deliver water to 95% of the population. Sipho Kings looks at how R1.3-trillion worth of infrastructure has been subject to so much corruption and mismanagement that many places are worse off than in 1994, leaving the state with a R898-billion bill this decade