Systemic corruption in SA’s water sector could hamper the state’s ability to provide the scarce resource to the country’s 57-million people, an NGO focused on fighting corruption in water worldwide said on Thursday.

In its report titled “Money down the drain: corruption in the SA water and sanitation sector”, the Berlin-based Water Integrity Network (WIN) said corruption in the sector “has gone through the roof”...

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