Leadership and governance failure are the cause of SA’s water crisis

By Opinion | Published Apr 29, 2024

By Chris Maxon“WHEN I return, as I often do, to the rural village and area of my childhood and youth, the poverty of the people and the devastation of the natural environment painfully strike me. And in that impoverishment of the natural environment, it is the absence of access to clean water that strikes most starkly,”, as Nelson Mandela pointed out in 2002.