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Many streets of Phola Park village in Mpumalanga look like this. (Warren Mabona)
KWAMHLANGA

Mpumalanga village’s disappearing roads

“The municipality must fix these streets because we cannot live like this”

  • Warren Mabona
1 min read
Vusi Skhosana runs a car wash with his business partner, William Masilela. Like many others in Zakheni, near KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga, they have no consistent water supply. (Warren Mabona)
THEMBISILE HANI LOCAL MUNICIPALITY

We are forced to buy water, say Mpumalanga villagers

Residents complain they have not had a reliable source of water for three years and have to spend hundreds of rand purchasing it

  • Warren Mabona
2 min read
Desperation: Elina Mahlangu collects water from a spring. Residents of Verena C in Mpumalanga share the water source with livestock. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
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Verena C still collects water from a stream after projects costing millions failed

Residents of Verena C in Mpumalanga have to collect water from a polluted stream after projects costing millions of rands failed

  • Marcia Zali
7 min read