‘Water services delivery in South Africa is in crisis’. That’s according to Janse Rabie of AgriSA Natural Resources.
Rabie says this situation was confirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, and Director-General of Water and Sanitation, Dr Sean Phillips, during the recent Water Indaba 2025, which was hosted at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.
“Although the government has taken significant steps since 1994 to provide water services to most of South Africa’s population, that progress has been largely undone in recent years by drastic declines in water quality, infrastructure failure, corruption, mismanagement and criminality. A big reason for this is the shortage of knowledgeable officials in the water services sector,” he said.
