JUSTICE MALALA | No water, load-shedding, no service delivery — one common denominator
The ANC’s corruption and cadre deployment lie at the bottom of most of our country’s problems
25 September 2023 - 18:25
Three weeks ago, I called my mother and told her I was on my way to visit her in Hammanskraal, just north of Tshwane. Hammanskraal is famous. The late great Dr Nthato Motlana is from there. Herman Mashaba, the political leader and millionaire businessman, is from the area. It is also notorious for its dirty water (a few months ago at least 31 people had died from the cholera outbreak in the area). I grew up next to a village called Stinkwater...
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