Water
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
Brief | 26 February 2020
Couple dies in shack fire in Kraaifontein
Wallacedene shack dwellers say they had no water to extinguish the blaze
By Vincent Lali
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
News | 25 February 2020
Vandals make drought worse in Graaff-Reinet
Taps ran dry last year for thousands of residents in drought-stricken town
News | 24 February 2020
Province raps City’s knuckles over state of rivers
Water quality results “disturbing” says MEC
News | 20 February 2020
Angry Butterworth protesters send mayor away
Residents ask Premier to drink borehole water, but he refuses
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Johnnie Isaac
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
News | 18 February 2020
Raw sewage flows into Sundays River, possibly for years already
Municipality says mechanical and electrical failure causing spillage
News | 17 February 2020
Taps ran dry four years ago in Pietermaritzburg neighbourhood
Residents depend on a water tanker
Brief | 14 February 2020