South Africa: Crisis Mode - It's Time to Sound the Alarm On the Eastern Cape Water Shortage

opinion

The water situation in the Eastern Cape is a clear and present emergency. The province's seven million people are living in fear and anxiety due to a major shortage of water, a situation that has been going on for many years, but which has now degenerated into a crisis.

If one were to go by general media coverage, we might be tempted to think that the second-biggest crisis in South Africa right now -- after the Covid-19 crisis, of course -- is Cyril vs Ace, and yet it is not.

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