Christina Culwick Fatti – The Conversation

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

October 6, 2025

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

Christina Culwick Fatti, University of the Western Cape; Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge; Fiona Anciano, University of the Western Cape, and Margot Rubin, Cardiff University

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

A view of Johannesburg’s Braamfontein district seconds after a scheduled power cut. Marco Longar/AFP via Getty Images

February 24, 2023

Christina Culwick Fatti, Gauteng City-Region Observatory and Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Gauteng City-Region Observatory

Very little attention has been paid to the justice implications of electricity distribution.

The Gauteng City-Region is home to a quarter of South Africa’s population. Mark Momberg

November 22, 2018

Julia de Kadt, Gauteng City-Region Observatory; Alexandra Parker, Gauteng City-Region Observatory, and Christina Culwick Fatti, Gauteng City-Region Observatory

The latest data offer a vital resource for understanding Gauteng’s multi-faceted challenges.