Johannesburg’s city council says it needs R221-billion to catch up on maintenance and overdue upgrades across its collapsing road, power and water networks, Bloomberg reports today.
The work pileup ‘highlights significant risks to public safety, economic safety and the environment if not addressed’, the council said. Home to 5-million people, the city has regular power and water outages. In March, parts of the city had no water for as long as 11 days.