DISPATCH SPECIAL INVESTIGATION | Eastern Cape Water Crisis

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | DYING OF THIRST IN ...

“I beg you, president Ramaphosa, help us get clean water!” This was the plea from Abongile Cabanga of Lugada village ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA
Info sourced from Stastics South Africa.
Info sourced from Stastics South Africa.
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WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | NPO only reliable ...

An NPO is keeping communities alive with 150 tonnes of clean water — and hope — every day in the Eastern Cape. “It’s ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Premier promises ...

Talk of dam and water supply projects worth tens of billions has drifted in the public political atmosphere for ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Cop with a golden ...

Taking R61,000 from his savings, retired Mount Fletcher police station commander Mthetheleli Damane paid to have a ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Private investigators to dive into war ...

Reticulated water supplies to whole communities in the Eastern Cape are being callously sabotaged for greed and ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | A village living under the heel of ideocracy ...

  When he is in the mood, there is water in the village. When he isn’t, there’s none. This is the cruel quality of ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | ADM armed security guards facing down ...

Armed security guards have been hired to protect water systems in one major Eastern Cape municipality — and it is ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Water peddlers making big money from thirsty ...

Some say villagers are lucky to have water tankers delivering to their villages, but others say this is a ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Donkeys, good ...

Nobandla Dyakopu, 60, limps as she carries her five-litre bucket of water. Her body is sore and creaking. She is ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Premier backs ...

Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has called for contractors and others responsible for the province’s water crisis ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Heaven and hell — a tale of two villages

In a tale of two villages, one area has piped water and an air of prosperity, the other has neither. In the Debe Nek ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Nothing but stale promises flow through ...

Villagers of the Eastern Cape will trust the weather long before any airy promises of piped water made by  government ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | The week ‘champagne’ flowed out the tap

Amazing — election water! Taps that had not flowed in years suddenly sprang to life, a week before the election in ...

By SINO MAJANGAZA and ZIYANDA ZWENI

WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT | Mandela and Mbeki’s villages are places of ...

There is no water piped to the villages that raised two great presidents of liberated SA, Nelson Mandela and Thabo ...

By ZIYANDA ZWENI and SINO MAJANGAZA

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