Water
Doris Mathebula walks 12km a day to fetch water because the municipal boreholes don’t work
Limpopo villagers say Mopani District Municipality has failed them
News | 1 February 2021
Shack dwellers disrupt water and electricity project in Uitenhage
The two projects are meant to benefit elderly, disabled and blind residents whose 500 informal structures are being built in the area
News | 20 January 2021
Families affected by dam construction are unhappy with state’s compensation
Water and Sanitation department says offers were fair
News | 19 January 2021
Hundreds march in Louis Trichardt to demand water, sanitation and proper roads
One resident says she has to buy buckets of water daily from other community members with boreholes
News | 14 December 2020
Residents of Cape Town informal settlements share their challenges
The City has said that most parcels of occupied land are not suitable for housing or permanent bulk services
By Vincent Lali
News | 10 December 2020
Call for Swartland municipality to investigate utility accounts
Our bills are the highest in the Western Cape, says Malmesbury resident
Brief | 10 December 2020
Upington municipality breaks promise to protesters
Dawid Kruiper mayor and speaker “not available” for promised council meeting
News | 10 December 2020
What this municipality hadn’t done in years, Gift of the Givers did in just three days
Water quality still has to be tested, but Eastern Cape villages now have boreholes
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 4 December 2020
Police use rubber bullets to disperse housing protesters
“Every time there is an election the governing party politicians go in there promising them housing and basic services but nothing is ever done”
News | 27 November 2020