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‘Under the draft National Water Amendment Bill of 2023 (the Water Bill)’, says the IRR, ‘the government aims to transfer many of the water-use rights vital to commercial agriculture to emergent farmers lacking title to land, working capital, and a host of other vital inputs. The Bill is thus likely to curtail production, push up food prices, and terminate many thousands of farming jobs, even as it brings few gains to new farmers.’
Alarm bells have been sounded over Buffalo City Metro’s apparent inability to protect vital infrastructure after metro staff were reportedly chased off sewage treatment and water infrastructure sites by vandals and scrap metal thieves. Local activists and opposition councillors have accused the city of failing to address the crime, neglecting to make necessary repairs and ignoring the ticking environmental and health timebombs caused by effluent flowing into watercourses because of non-functi.