In the breach left by failing local government services, citizens have been making alternative plans for years, buying solar panels to get off the electricity grid, digging boreholes to tap underground water and...

In the breach left by failing local government services, citizens have been making alternative plans for years, buying solar panels to get off the electricity grid, digging boreholes to tap underground water and...
When then Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi used a state hospital in 2013, the event was unusual enough to make headlines. Until then, it would have been unheard of for a senior politician to use a public hospital. The...