Water

Only nine of 55 villages get water from controversial multi-billion rand project

Deputy President Paul Mashatile promises that by November a dozen more villages would get tap water via the Giyani Water Project

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News | 9 September 2024

Villagers use contaminated river water while R100-million sewage project delayed

Tsomo waste water treatment works were meant to be completed two years ago

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News | 9 September 2024

Women in Limpopo village had to dig their own water well

Vhembe District Municipality says repairs to faulty boreholes across Elim will be done by end September

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Brief | 5 September 2024

Rhodes University plans water independence from municipality

“Our students and staff can no longer depend on a dying municipality” says vice-chancellor

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Brief | 4 September 2024

Hundreds march to Tshwane mayor’s office demanding debt write-off

“Please accommodate our motion to write off our debts”

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Brief | 29 August 2024

Water woes leave Joburg residents at wits’ end

Water pressure in Bertrams is too low to fill geysers

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News | 27 August 2024

Ten years on and households still rely on water trucks

Communal standpipes used to supply water to semi-rural areas of northern KZN

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News | 26 August 2024

In these Free State villages you must share water with the pigs

2,000 households short of water in Maluti-a-Phofung, says ward councillor

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News | 23 August 2024

In this village you only get tap water on Fridays

An Mpumalanga municipality says it has a shortfall of nearly 60-million litres of water per day.

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News | 21 August 2024