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Should citizens be fixing their own municipality water and road problems?
1 March 2021 11:36 AM
Prof David Everatt of Urban Governance at Wits talks to Refilwe Moloto about this growing desperate trend.
There are numerous examples of ordinary South African citizens and non-profit organisations stepping in and fixing their own neighborhoods and towns.
Last October residents of Baviaanskloof in the Eastern Cape took matters into their own hands and began fixing their roads.
Makhanda, formerly Grahamstown, is a case in point here Gift of the Givers and residents are doing the job of the municipality by drilling boreholes and providing water during a crisis where the entire town has been without any water for a long time.