The Bronkhorstspruit treatment works ran without disinfection for 21 days, and nearly 600 people, many of them small children, fell ill. Parliament has now heard that water in parts of central Pretoria was also not being disinfected. For 21 days,…

Eleven months after its launch, the Vaal Corporation Water Utility is about to take over Emfuleni’s water staff and assets. The backlog is enormous, but the department now calls it a model for the rest of the country. In November…

South Africans vote in local government elections on 4 November. After a year of dry taps, sewage spills and missing money, water is one of the issues that could decide who runs the country’s municipalities. Here is what the main…