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The initiative to accelerate the provision of proper toilets, with a R2.4bn budget, is expected to reach its goal by March

Last year, the former Minister of Water and Sanitation Lindiwe Sisulu disbanded Umgeni Water's board.

  The death of Nelson Mandela, at age 95 on 5 December 2013, brings genuine sadness. As his health deteriorated over the past six months, many asked the more durable question:  how did he change South Africa ? Given how unsatisfactory life is for so many in society, the follow-up question is,  how much room was there for Mandela to maneuver ? South Africa now lurches from crisis to crisis, and so many of us are tempted to remember the Mandela years – especially the first democratic government – as fundamentally different from the crony-capitalist, corruption-riddled, brutally-securitis...

Mabila School toilets - a failure Learners at a primary school in Vhembe, Limpopo are still using pit toilets. The department of education blames a failed plan to merge schools. While Mabila Primary School learners in Vhembe remains without proper toilets, the Limpopo education department has traced the problem to a failed schools merger. Learners at the school are forced to use four dilapidated pit toilets, two for girls and two for boys. Last month Health-e Newsreported on how these conditions prevail,  despite building materials delivered at the school three years ago. The provincial d...