A water crisis long in the making, with no end in sight

Joburg’s 11-day water crisis exposed a chain of disaster, from years of inadequate maintenance to the political and managerial collapse in South Africa’s biggest city

17 March 2024 - 00:00 By ferrial adam

Over 11 days in the national water month of March, residents of Johannesburg were pushed to the edge by  a water outage that cut across the city from Soweto in the south to Randpark Ridge in the north...

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