Local government
More than two years since construction started, toilets remain incomplete in Free State village
The contract was terminated due to unsatisfactory progress a year ago
Brief | 3 October 2022
South Coast businesses join forces to provide services municipalities are supposed to provide
“We’re not here to criticise the municipalities. We’ve tried it for years. It doesn’t solve anything.”
By Benita Enoch
News | 30 September 2022
Municipality liable for child shot by mayor’s bodyguard
Five-year-old suffered severe brain damage and paralysis
Law | 23 September 2022
Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500,000 people
People have to use their social grants to buy electricity to boil dirty water
By Steve Kretzmann and Chris Gilili
News | 22 September 2022
Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks
Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly
News | 19 September 2022
Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC
Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday
By Benita Enoch
News | 22 August 2022
The President came, the President went, and nothing changed
15 months after the Harrismith N3 protests, the people of Intabazwe say they remain forgotten
News | 18 August 2022
Makhanda to provide serviced sites instead of houses
City unable to cope with rise in housing needs
Brief | 18 August 2022
Eastern Cape towns without water for two weeks
Striking workers at Amathole District Municipality say they are not to blame
By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
News | 12 August 2022