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The mayor-go-round must stop

The government of national unity is working at a national level, but the same cannot be said about municipal coalition governments

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Not a drop to drink: Ndenzeni Njwenene, 82, fetches water for from a river near Mthatha. Despite millions being spent on a project in the ward, seven years later taps are still dry. Many municipalities in the Eastern Cape fail to provide potable water. Photo: Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images

Myriad causes of SA’s water crisis

Ageing and a failure to maintain infrastructure are among the reasons so many people do not have clean water

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Efforts to get the pump station fixed by the municipality have been “fruitless”. Photo by Delwyn Verasamy

Our water crisis is a tinderbox

Sewage pollution has harrowing consequences for human health, such as waterborne pathogens like cholera, salmonella, typhoid and hepatitis

  • Eyaaz
2 min read