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The Lesotho-South Africa water deal was clinched during the apartheid era and without public consultation.
The changes that were mapped represent the shift from a lake to the contemporary shallow wetland at the site.
The tunnel bringing millions of litres of water from dams in Lesotho to South Africa is to undergo a six-month repair. This could leave residents of Gauteng in South Africa short of water.
The New Development Bank doesn’t have mechanisms that communities can use to hold it accountable or seek redress.
Gauteng citizens need to know the uncomfortable truth: for the next six years, their water supplies will increasingly have to be restricted.
Lesotho’s first-ever entry at the Oscars is a powerful story based on true-to-life events in which a village is to be forcibly evicted to make way for a new dam.




