It took threats of legal action, ‘forced’ negotiations and a series of angry protests to finally get a temporary solution
Rand Water has imposed stage two restrictions to allow Johannesburg Water’s reservoirs to fill up
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The way water has been managed needs to change because policy decisions can no longer be based on historic rainfall patterns
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Technical steps have been taken reduce water wastage but political infighting in the metro hinders decision-making and implementation
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The dam levels have been low for years, the canal transferring water from the Orange River Project to the storage dam was not repaired and the metro rejected help from the state
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Gift of the Givers has started drilling boreholes, while Business Chamber members will help repair leaks
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Water is treated as if it is an infinite resource but it is a false perception of abundance
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The Impofu Dam will run dry in six days and the Churchill Dam will be empty 15 days
Just a few weeks left until taps run dry in large parts of the metropolitan
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The Climate Justice Charter Movement has critiqued the manifestos of the main parties contesting the local government elections and found them ‘shallow’
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The effects of global warming are negatively affecting mental well-being and will only accelerate in the future, according to a new report
The unfolding of events at recent protest in Makhanda ended up scoring cheap political points for a select few, while ignoring the real grievances
The Human Rights Commission’s report on the river’s sewage crisis reveals the lawlessness of the state
Municipalities have failed to maintain their existing infrastructure for providing residents with water
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
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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 on farms in South Africa. It was just another day of struggle, with women having to walk at least two kilometres to fetch water, sometimes from empty JoJo tanks, fending off attacks on the way, and now […]
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 haven’t had much of a weekend, with jobs on Friday and Saturday, so there’s been no real opportunity to catch my breath after the previous week’s news cycle. It’s amazing how quickly I got used to having a weekend after […]
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
We all have a responsibility to use it wisely for our generations and for those to come
Little has changed in Hammanskraal since the Mail & Guardian last visited the area in August, when residents said the tap water had made them sick.