Maverick News Accountability gap - SA municipalities are taking more water from dams than they’re allowed 7 min 1 By Sean Christie
South Africa Eight years and counting – raw sewage pouring continuously into Butterworth river 3 min 1 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
Maverick News EC municipality provided one tap for 1,000 desperate families — and it’s been dry for seven years 2 min 1 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
Maverick News No water, no class – pupils block municipal building with burning tyres over dry taps at Fort Beaufort school 2 min 1 By Mkhuseli Sizani
South Africa Loss of R493-million grant will be ‘catastrophic’ to Amathole municipality, activists say 2 min 0 By Daniel Steyn
Our Burning Planet Eastern Cape municipalities pump raw sewage into waterways 3 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
Our Burning Planet Eastern Cape struck by worst locust infestation in 25 years, swathes of valuable grazing lost 5 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
Our Burning Planet Eastern Cape officials still counting losses after floods kill 14 and displace hundreds 6 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
Our Burning Planet Police officer and 18-year-old matriculant among seven reported drowned in East London 4 min 0 By Tembile Sgqolana
Maverick Citizen No water: Judge issues strict deadline for government cooperation — while Eastern Cape residents suffer 3 min 5 By Estelle Ellis
Maverick Citizen Hung out to dry: Eastern Cape community without water for almost half a decade asks the court to force municipality to help 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
Our Burning Planet More delays in bringing Eastern Cape project online to provide desperately needed water to villages 3 min 1 By Tembile Sgqolana
Maverick Citizen How to keep a movement alive: Lessons from 14 years of sustained activism in Xolobeni on the Wild Coast 8 min 2 By Tess Peacock and Zak Essa
DM168 Will they, or won’t they, be paid? Confusion over Amathole district officials’ salaries remains 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
COVID-19 Eastern Cape government in the dark about Amathole’s withdrawal of salary-freeze letter 3 min 3 By Estelle Ellis
Maverick Citizen Task team appointed to save Amathole district municipality – salary freeze scrapped 5 min 6 By Estelle Ellis
South Africa Eastern Cape: What this municipality failed to do in years, Gift of the Givers did in just three days 4 min 2 By Johnnie Isaac and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
