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Limpopo SOPA promises solutions again – as dry taps continue to haunt communities

For many households in Limpopo, access to water is not a convenience but a daily battle. Families spend hours queuing at communal taps or walking long distances to collect water from boreholes and wells, where animals also drink

Dry taps, quiet crisis – how state inaction normalised rural water poverty

Billions have been spent on water projects, but due to corruption and mismanagement, many of these were never completed. Broken water pipes at what used to be construction sites for these projects stand as poignant monuments to this rot.

Remembering John Maroo – a freedom fighter who defied jail and banishment and paid with his life

In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.

PAC pursues justice for Sobukwe as questions over apartheid era crimes persist

More than four decades after Sobukwe’s death, unresolved questions surrounding his treatment, his illness, and the political motives of his persecutors continue to echo across South Africa’s legal and political landscape.