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Incompetence, graft, key drivers of water crisis

Opinion|Published 1 year ago

Water spurts from a broken pipe on South Coast Road in Mobeni, Durban, this week. Across our country, hardly a day goes by without reports of corruption, incompetence, the construction mafia, unprotected strikes and poor management of the procurement…

Deracialise standards to build and renew for social upliftment

Opinion|Published 1 year ago

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African cities dominate world’s least liveable cities

Dominic Naidoo|Published 1 year ago

Picture: Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA-EFE/Taken on November 23, 2022 – ...

Reversing apartheid’s spatial reality

Published 2 years ago

Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA) – The embattled Madibeng local manicipality is plagued by poor service delivery such as poor road infrastucture, ...

Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana – and are changing the way people can access this vital resource

The Conversation|Published 2 years ago

Picture: Daniel Irungu/EPA – A Kenyan woman, left, is shown how to fetch water from one of the ATM-style water dispensers installed in the Mathare slums in Nairobi, ...