Almost 20 million South Africans do not have access to safe water and 14 million have no access to basic sanitation. There are roughly 12.5 million people living in informal settlements and a housing backlog of up to 3.7 million houses. Without effective service delivery, the socioeconomic rights listed in the Constitution are a hollow set of promises with no real bearing on the conditions in which people live.
The South African government has in the past month been forced to reckon with the country’s untenable rate of poverty and inequality.
In the aftermath of the unrest that besieged […]
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