Athandiwe Saba continues her reporting with a story about the people of Standerton who have taken it on themselves to fix things
Three children are dead. More than a dozen homes have been gutted by fires in the past six months. And, as the Mail & Guardian reported last week, all this could have been averted had the Lekwa municipality in Mpumalanga followed due process in obtaining new fire trucks. Lekwa is one of the worst-performing municipalities […]
Lekwa Municipality has been without a fire engine for six months — even though half a million rand has been paid for the rental of two