Komani’s Dry Taps: Crisis or Business?

📡 Mail & Guardian (South Africa) · 1 min read ·
Komani’s Dry Taps: Crisis or Business?
Taps in Komani repeatedly run dry. Residents now ask a hard question: is failing infrastructure being kept broken to enrich private water tanker contractors? Emergency municipal tenders pay these contractors to deliver water. Some residents suspect the system is sustained this way. The concern is not proven. But it raises a basic accountability issue: public failure should not become private profit.