The South African Human Rights Commission has released a damning report on the Eastern Cape's Makana Municipality water and sanitation crisis, finding systemic governance failures and repeated service delivery breakdowns. The Commission says residents have endured prolonged water outages, sewage spills and infrastructure decay despite years of interventions. It now recommends that the Eastern Cape Provincial Executive consider dissolving the municipal council as a last resort due to ongoing constitutional rights violations affecting residents. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Eastern Cape SAHRC Provincial Manager, Dr Eileen Carter