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‘We fight over water’: Go inside this Mpumalanga community’s ongoing struggle to access basic services

Residents of Masakhane in eMalahleni have never had running water. They have to use buckets and wheelbarrows to carry water from one of the 33 JoJo tanks in the area — but these tanks are not filled regularly. When, community members wonder, will they have access to this basic service?


  • Read the municipality’s full response here.
  • See eMalahleni’s water schedule here.
  • Read the full script here.

Dylan Bush was a health journalist at Bhekisisa from February 2016 to September 2023.

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