Charlotte Lemanski

Residents of Imizamo Yethu in Cape Town use community patrols to provide their own security. Peter Titmuss/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

South Africans are going off the service grid: what happens when citizens replace the state?

Failing water, power, sanitation and security services in South Africa are spurring households and communities to do it themselves.

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