South Africa’s richest province heading for disaster.
Residents of South Africa’s richest province are facing a worsening water crisis, as a combination of ageing infrastructure, mismanagement and hig...
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Water is not a political tool, but a human right.
Communities experiencing outages are not concerned with political arguments.
By David Mahlobo, Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitatio...
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The water crisis in South Africa’s Eastern Cape: A gap between policy and reality.
Eastern Cape government policy often echoes national directives promising better access to water and sanitation...
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Water in the dams, but South Africa’s taps are dry: essential reads on a history of bad management.
It’s become a common refrain in South Africa: there’s no drought, dams and reservoirs are full, but...
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“With water we will wash away the past” – The elusive promise of redressing water inequalities in post-Apartheid South Africa.
By Magalie Bourblanc, Université de Montpellier, France; and...
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Human rights drown in the rising tide of water crisis.
South Africans wake up every day in a country where human rights exist loudly on paper and quietly disappear in practice. The unfolding water cr...
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Gqeberha is once again confronting a deepening water crisis that exposes not only infrastructural decay and municipal failure but also the enduring realities of racial capitalism, marked by water apar...
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Greetings from The World Toilet Summit in India from the new kid on the block.
I’m the dude with black t-shirt, we have been talking sh*t for three days.
On the left Jack Sim, Mr Toilet. He is the guy...
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The Blue Community is delighted to welcome a new partner. On World Toilet Day today, 19 November, the Sanitation Ambassadors NPC is joining the Blue Community. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, it is ...
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