Flushing toilets were installed in backyards in the North West, but they can’t be used because the sewage has nowhere to go

The local municipality irregularly spent at least R443.8-million according to the auditor general’s latest report

Madibeng local municipality – which, according to Premier Thandi Modise, is dysfunctional – has been place under provincial administration.

After a protester was shot dead in Sebokeng during violent protests, demonstrations continued in Majakaneng, with residents burning a truck.

Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa says cops fired banned shotgun rounds during a service delivery protest that left four dead in Mothotlung.

The department of water affairs says a new pip has been installed in Madibeng to address the water shortage in the area.

The implementation of a ministerial report from a year ago could have saved lives in Mothotlung by averting the fatal protests over water delivery.

The Workers International Vanguard Party has warned of more protests if water and electricity – already paid for – is not restored in Madibeng.

Madibeng mayor Poppy Magongoa and two members of her council have resigned, following a call from the ANC to implement disciplinary actions.

Enock Seimela, killed during a water shortage protest in Mothotlung, was shot with his hands up after trying to help another victim, say his friends.

Following violent clashes over a water shortage in Mothotlung, another person has died after reportedly being shot in the head with live ammunition.

Following protests over a water shortage in Mothotlung, Agang SA says Jericho is the second community in the North West to be without water.

Following protests in Mothotlung, water has been restored to most parts of the area, says the North West premier’s office.

The three young men who died in Mothotlung during protests for access to water have left a community in mourning.

The Madibeng municipality seems reluctant to appoint a permanent water technicican, despite the area having pump problems since August.

The tragedy of Brits’s lack of access to clean water is that people had to die before anyone took any notice.

Stunned Mothotlung residents suspect that dirty politics is to blame for the deaths of three people protesting against the township’s lack of water.

In Mothotlung, where three people died this week during a stand-off with police at a service delivery protest, municipal failures are the norm.

Police say a man who was arrested for public violence during a protest in Mothotlung has died after he was allegedly pushed from a moving Nyala.

The water and environmental affairs minister has vowed to return running water to residents of Mothotlung by the end of the week.