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                            <title><![CDATA[Incompetence, graft, key drivers of water crisis]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[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 processes, say the writers. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo / Independent Newspapers / March 14, 2024By Michael Sutcliffe and Sue Bannister“Water bubbles up in streets, pooling in neighbourhoods for weeks or months. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <title><![CDATA[Deracialise standards to build and renew for social upliftment]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture:  Neil Baynes/African News Agency/Taken on February 17, 2010 – Road works on the N1 Roodepoort Highway, Gauteng. While municipalities do need more to spend on infrastructure development and maintenance, more can be done more efficiently with the existing resources, the writers say. Should we continue to re-tar roads that were built under apartheid to assist the few, but which have no really useful social or economic life for a democratic South Africa, the writers ask. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 09:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[African cities dominate world’s least liveable cities]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Oleg Petrasyuk/EPA-EFE/Taken on November 23, 2022 –  Firefighters work at the site of a block of flats destroyed by shelling in Vyshhorod, near Kyiv, Ukraine, amid Russia's invasion. Kyiv was included in the ‘liveability’ census this year for the first time since February 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Reversing apartheid’s spatial reality]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[Picture: Oupa Mokoena/African News Agency (ANA) – The embattled Madibeng local manicipality is plagued by poor service delivery such as poor road infrastucture, erratic water supply, housing problems, unreliable power supply and pit toilets. We should ensure that in district and metropolitan areas, we use the range of human resources to co-ordinate and synchronise infrastructure plans and budgets from all spheres of government, the writers say. ]]></description>
                            
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                            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                            <title><![CDATA[Water ATMs were introduced in Ghana – and are changing the way people can access this vital resource]]></title>
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                            <description><![CDATA[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, Kenya. The system uses a smart card which are being issued to the locals, aims to provide cleaner and cheaper water to resident of the slum. ]]></description>
                            
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