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South Africa is in a climate-vulnerable region said to be warming at twice the global average temperature rate. The country has increasingly been facing devastating floods, droughts, extreme heat and wildfires that will only worsen while world leaders are slow to combat the climate crisis. 

The United Democratic Movement (UDM) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) is vindicated by the South African Human Rights Commission’s report, which has been a warning to uMzinyathi District Municipality against infringing the Msinga Community's right to access water, which is guaranteed by Section 27(1)(b) of the Constitution.

The city of Gqeberha in South Africa is an example of how water is increasingly becoming a commodified resource, benefiting the powerful and depriving everyone else.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated that the tragedy in which 74 people

Politics is critical in enhancing water governance processes as the authoritative allocation of values and resources in the polity.

Sewage plants: It goes straight into streams, rivers, dams, groundwater, and ultimately the ocean — untreated and unaccounted for. 

With resource provision and a strong partnership between government and the private sector, the situation can be salvaged, writes Faizal Bux

Municipalities that do not address pollution of their water systems, or have not put in place plans to sort out the pollution, have been criminally charged by the Department of Water and Sanitation for breaching the National Water Act.

Louis Thabethe, the mayor of Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton, said he had already started repairing the leaking sewerage plants polluting the Vaal River before the court fined the council an astronomical R70 million.

The Department of Water and Sanitation says it is working on several initiatives aimed at addressing the problem of pollution of rivers by municipal wastewater treatment works.