Water

No end to water rationing in Makhanda

Water crisis could have been avoided, says residents’ association

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News | 2 March 2020

Taps ran dry over a decade ago in North West Village

Villagers have depended on buying water from private tankers and people with wells

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News | 28 February 2020

“Sisi, what’s the use of voting?” asks Pietermaritzburg resident

Impassable roads, no tap water, no clinic, no community hall and their municipality placed under administration for irregular expenditure

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News | 27 February 2020

Not my area – adjacent ANC and DA ward councillors disown informal settlement

Protesting residents of Bayland in Port Elizabeth don’t know where to turn

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Brief | 26 February 2020

Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein

Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze

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News | 25 February 2020

Eastern Cape villagers promised water in 1998, still waiting

Over R23 million spent and the bills keep mounting, but the taps stay dry in Flagstaff villages

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News | 25 February 2020

Vandals make drought worse in Graaff-Reinet

Taps ran dry last year for thousands of residents in drought-stricken town

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News | 24 February 2020

Province raps City’s knuckles over state of rivers

Water quality results “disturbing” says MEC

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News | 20 February 2020

Angry Butterworth protesters send mayor away

Residents ask Premier to drink borehole water, but he refuses

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News | 19 February 2020

Uitenhage residents want their pothole left alone

Land occupiers use water from the pothole for bathing and boil it for cooking

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News | 18 February 2020

Raw sewage flows into Sundays River, possibly for years already

Municipality says mechanical and electrical failure causing spillage

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News | 17 February 2020

Taps ran dry four years ago in Pietermaritzburg neighbourhood

Residents depend on a water tanker

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Brief | 14 February 2020

N2 highway blocked as Butterworth residents protest over water

Protesters want President Ramaphosa to intervene

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News | 13 February 2020

Residents to take municipality to court over water meters

Witzenberg municipality accused of denying indigent grants to residents who refuse to install water management devices

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News | 12 February 2020

Fire victims relocated to waterlogged site

Survivors of a devastating blaze in December say the site they were relocated to is unsuitable and unserviced

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News | 12 February 2020

Violent protests after taps run dry in Ntuzuma

Municipality says load shedding is partly to blame for water crisis

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News | 6 February 2020