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Criticism of Rand Water’s Zanzibar investment is misguided

AfriForum cannot, on one hand, criticise state-owned entities for their perpetual reliance on bailouts and on the other hand, also criticise them when they engage in secondary…

Wastewater: An overflowing drain flowing in a town in Mpumalanga. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mpumalanga municipality slapped with record R650m penalty for years of raw sewage spills

In a landmark ruling, the Emalahleni local municipality was ordered to fund major repairs after pleading guilty to persistent sewage pollution that contaminated rivers feeding…

Residents, community organisations and civil society groups across Johannesburg have united to demand urgent action to end the city’s deepening water crisis. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Beneficial use of water is a matter of (public) trust

The new water quotas along race lines are not in the interest of any of South Africa’s people

The role of smallholder farmers, who make up the majority of farmers, is crucial. (Gallo)

Race-based water licence allocations draw ire of farmers

Government says the draft rules are to address the disparities in access to water use left over from apartheid

Foul: Church members worship on the banks of the Klip River, a heavily polluted river. Photo: Ihsaan Haffjee/Getty Images

City of Johannesburg slapped with directive over raw sewage pollution into tributary of Klip River

The directive orders the city to stop untreated waste from entering rivers

A Cape Town civic organisation says former minister of water and sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu has “usurped” the powers of the water tribunal by uplifting the suspension of a water use licence issued to the developers of the multibillion-rand redevelopment of the River Club in Observatory, Cape Town.

Sisulu and her adviser implicated in R4bn Cape Town development with Amazon as tenant

Lindiwe Sisulu and her adviser are accused of meddling in a R4-billion development in a sensitive Cape Town area meant to house Amazon’s Africa office

Costly cleanup: Mine waste water is poisoning rivers. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Sisulu: Third of audited mines violate conditions of water use licence

The water and sanitation department has not revoked or suspended water use, ‘but this remains an option’

On the bottle: The 82-year-old James Mutle has to pay youngsters to chase after trucks that deliver drinking water otherwise he and others have to buy bottled water. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

‘We are paying for this dirty water’

Despite the SA Human Rights Commission declaring the water in Hammanskraal unfit for consumption, citizens are being forced to buy their own

People in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town have been managing water shortages for ages.

Bold steps are needed toward a ‘new normal’ that allocates water fairly in SA

South Africa is a water-scarce country where inequity and a lack of fairness and justice pervades water distribution

People in the township of Khayelitsha near Cape Town have been managing water shortages for ages.

Bold steps needed for a ‘new normal’ that allocates water fairly

South Africa is a water-scarce country where inequity and a lack of fairness and justice pervades water distribution.

‘The National Water Act automatically suspends a mining company’s water-use licence when an appeal is submitted but empowers the minister to lift the suspension at her discretion

Parliament asked to probe Mokonyane about mine’s water-use licence for wetland

The water minister has ignored conservationists’ legal bid to protect an Mpumalanga wetland, using her powers to allow mining to go ahead