Delport water crisis persists despite SAHRC warning

Two months after the South African Human Rights Commission called Gauteng municipalities to account for what it described as a "profound violation of human rights," residents of Delport, in Ekurhuleni, are still struggling to access water.

To this day, they continue to queue for water from privately contracted tankers — a system that has cost taxpayers more than R116 million.

Meanwhile, some residents are forced to wash their clothes beneath bridges that reek of raw sewage.

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