Water And Sanitation

High court hears minister’s urgent application to halt release of PP report

Article Franny Rabkin - 6 May 2019

An order is expected later on Monday or on Tuesday

This is why we don’t have water

Article Sipho Kings - 15 Mar 2019

Protests, corruption, mismanagement — the department explains its failure to deliver water

Women prove that social franchising can work

Article Advertorial - 23 Nov 2018

Creating opportunities for themselves while uplifting the community

Washing water clean with waste ash from coal

Article Tamsin Oxford - 29 Jun 2018

NSTF-Water Research Commission Award: towards achieving sustainable water management, knowledge generation and solutions with demonstrated leadership

Community standing on its own

Article Advertising Supplement - 4 May 2018

Florence Negondeni and other residents of Tshakhuma went to the mountain and piped water to 4 000 people

Water Sector Advisory Panel on Weather and Climate

Article Advertising Supplement - 4 May 2018

Working together to restore human dignity through universal access to water and sanitation

Fed up Capetonians to fight water costs

Article Raeesa Pather - 10 Apr 2018

Residents in Cape Town are preparing to march against a proposed 26.9% water and sanitation tariff hike in the City of Cape Town’s budget.

Water and sanitation department is billions of rands in debt

Article Kaveel Singh - 28 Feb 2018

An inquiry into the finances of the Department of Water and Sanitation has been instituted after it conceded to being billions of rand in debt.

Zille asks Mokonyane for urgent resolution to water crisis

Article Jan Bornman - 1 Feb 2018

Premier Helen Zille has asked Minister Nomvula Mokonyane for a joint task team to work under the minister's leadership

Mokonyane blames department’s financial woes on municipalities’ R7bn debt

Article Paul Herman - 22 Aug 2017

Mokonyane on Tuesday appeared before Scopa to account for R2.5-billion in irregular expenditure in 2015-16.

Mokonyane rejects Outa’s claims of delay tactics in Lesotho water project

Article Lizeka Tandwa - 26 Jul 2017

Outa says Mokonyane has "jeopardised" the water security for Gauteng by delaying the development of the LHWP II for more than two years.

Nomvula Mokonyane’s water department is bankrupt

Article Staff Reporter - 12 Feb 2017

Hundreds of contractors unpaid for at least seven months as department is now R4.3-billion in the red.

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