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Government passed the buck on Vaal pollution for too long —panel

Environment Sheree Bega - 19 Feb 2021

The Human Rights Commission’s report on the river’s sewage crisis reveals the lawlessness of the state

R100-billion needed to staunch KZN’s water woes

Environment Paddy Harper - 19 Jan 2021

Municipalities have failed to maintain their existing infrastructure for providing residents with water

Covid-19 surges in the Eastern Cape

Coronavirus Mkhuseli Sizani & M&G Data Desk - 20 Nov 2020

With people queuing for services, no water, lax enforcement of mask rules and plenty of partying, the virus is flourishing once again, and a quarter of the growth is in the Eastern Cape

Free state municipality gets a paint job instead of water services

National Athandiwe Saba - 31 Aug 2020

Maluti-A-Phofung council report wants former municipal manager to pay back the money he spent on communications company that was meant to establish a call centre for the QwaQwa community

Sekhukhune’s five-year battle for water back in court

National Sarah Smit - 8 Aug 2020

The residents of five villages are calling for the district municipal manager to be arrested

Covid-19 is yet another burden on the shoulders of women

Coronavirus C19 Women’s Solidarity Forum - 7 May 2020

COMMENT This year, Freedom Day on April 27 came and went without celebration for women in townships and on farms in South Africa. It was...

Sisulu’s plan threatens water future

Article Athandiwe Saba - 23 Apr 2020

With nearly 19 000 tanks needed for emergency water supply, the already broke water department is exhausting its future budget for crucial projects in areas already without water

Waterless Khayelitsha residents fear Covid-19

Article Thando Maeko - 26 Mar 2020

As the country prepares to go into lockdown, residents fear that they may be at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19

Court interdicts cancelling Hammanskraal wastewater contract

Article Sarah Smit - 10 Mar 2020

Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane’s leadership is being dissolved due to collapsing service delivery

Dampener for the weekend

Article Paddy Harper - 6 Mar 2020

Monday. It’s the start of the working week, but I’m already exhausted, worn out. I haven’t had much of a weekend, with jobs on Friday and...

Political battle drains coastal taps

Article Paddy Harper - 6 Mar 2020

Sabotage and infighting threaten the water supply of 750000 South Coast residents

Water theft: Thirty years of looting

Article Sipho Kings - 28 Feb 2020

New research details how the department was broken, profiting a select few and leaving a third of South Africa’s population without clean water

In his Sona speech, Ramaphosa must tread the line between promises and reality

Article Bongekile Macupe - 12 Feb 2020

South Africa has a slew of service-delivery problems, most notably in the water and electricity sectors. The time for promises is over: what the country needs is action

Impossible choices in QwaQwa: What it takes to get water

Article Bongekile Macupe - 7 Feb 2020

A broken municipality and a four-year crisis forces residents to consider desperate choices, such as trading sex for water

The Makhanda disaster cannot be ignored

Analysis Eusebius McKaiser - 6 Feb 2020

The municipality turned a deaf ear to residents’ cries — until they united and took it to court

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