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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

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

COMMENT This year, Freedom Day on April 27 came and went without celebration for women in townships and...

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

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

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

Monday. It’s the start of the working week, but I’m already exhausted, worn out. I...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Impoverished residents have sought legal advice after the Witzenberg Municipality withdrew indigent subsidies for those who refused to allow it to install water management devices.

Conflicts have doubled in the past decade, with 26% of these occurring on the African continent