Water

Court orders Lesotho dams authority to pay 600 villagers compensation

Villagers in Bobete lost access to riverine resources since the Katse Dam was built

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Law | 21 November 2025

We’re taking government to court for failing to provide clean water

Eastern Cape municipalities fail to realise Section 27 of the Constitution

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Opinion | 18 November 2025

At this Limpopo clinic, nurses have to fetch water in buckets

Midoroni clinic has not had running water for over two years

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Brief | 13 November 2025

Ecological disaster in the Hemel-en-Aarde Valley

The collapse of a precious palmiet peatland exposes failures and tensions in the management of our water resources

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Feature | 7 November 2025

The real cost of Johannesburg’s water

Families living alongside the huge Thukela-Vaal Transfer Scheme get no water

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News | 5 November 2025

In photos: Joburg protesters call for end to water crisis

Millions of people in the city face daily water interruptions, dry taps, and inadequate sanitation, say picketers

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Photo Essay | 3 November 2025

No water for two years as R200-million project remains incomplete

At Vyeboom Clinic near Vuwani in Limpopo, staff and patients have to bring water and use pit toilets

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News | 30 October 2025

No soccer at new R37-million Limpopo stadium

The pitch is unusable because the grass has not grown adequately due to water shortages

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Brief | 30 October 2025

Eastern Cape villagers take charge of their own water supply

Frustrated by the unreliable municipal water supply, six communities near Cofimvaba have raised over R110,000 for their own supply infrastructure

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Brief | 29 October 2025

Water workers on strike in Free State

Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality plans to close down water company

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Brief | 28 October 2025

How two very different South Africans are solving their water problems

“I have learned in my life to take responsibility for the needs of my family. If you wait for help, you can wait too long.”

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Feature | 27 October 2025

Unemployed Capetonians march for jobs, safety and water

“I don’t see the point of filling out these [jobseekers’] forms anymore”

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Brief | 25 October 2025

KZN municipality battles skills shortage as water infrastructure collapses

Stalled water projects mean conditional grants cannot be released

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Brief | 21 October 2025

Lesotho families, moved to make way for a dam, lose court battle

20 years after they were displaced by the Mohale Dam, court tells families to share their compensation payout

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News | 7 October 2025

People fight for water as infrastructure crumbles

uMzinyathi District Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal is failing to supply water

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Feature | 6 October 2025