Since I was born in 1979 water has been a nightmare in our village of Marulaneng. We spend the whole day crowded around one borehole battling to get water. Our bodies ache from pushing around drums of water every day.
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They had the gala dinner and signed the deal [with Zimbabwe] and then later called the community, but what for? Water is life so this matter must be treated seriously. Last time he [Mchunu] took two years to come back to us. They think we are kids. They are beating about the bush because we know this water is for the SEZ [MMSEZ]. We don't want to go back there [shutdown protests]," Musina resident Donald Ramuthivheli
A 2019 precedent setting high court ruling compelled municipalities to provide farm dwellers with clean drinking water and provide access to dignified sanitation. However very little has changed for some farm residents.
Residents in several areas of Limpopo where water shortages have been severe say their villages have been without water for years, and how their communities share water with domestic animals, endangering human health and well-being.
“We must stop taking water for granted,” Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Dr Qu Dongyu warned at the recent two-day Rome Water Dialogue, the…
Mmakgomo Esther Ramunyai was beaming with satisfaction when she took one of the new water carriers donated to her village for a test-drive, or was…
THE Government of the Republic of Zambia in partnership with the Southern African Development Community Fund for Water Infrastructure and Basic Sanitation (SADC Water Fund)…
THE Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) is on a mission to redress the provision of water services to residents on privately owned land following…
The Ministerial meeting further reviewed the regional power generation and transmission projects, petroleum and gas programmes, renewable energy and energy efficiency issues, energy sector regulatory activities implemented by the subsidiary organisations and the International Cooperating Partners supporting SADC Energy programmes.