South Africa’s failing water system ‘awash in corruption, incompetence’

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South Africa’s failing water system ‘awash in corruption, incompetence’
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Anthony Turton said culpable homicide charges should be brought in the Hammanskraal cholera outbreak if a link could be shown to the long-standing problems at Tshwane’s Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant.

Entrenched criminality, negligence and lack of maintenance are at the heart of the water crisis, experts say — and lead to such tragedies as the cholera deaths in Hammanskraal. ..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.

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