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Just a day before the government announced it would finalise compensation payments to relocated families in order to make way for the construction of the Nandoni Dam more than two decades ago community leader Gilbert Netshivhambe received devastating news.
Another claimant who had waited since 1998 to be compensated for the loss of land had died on Sunday 7 January.
A total of 1,401 households made way for the construction of the Nandnoni Dam, but only a few of them have access to a regular water supply since the process was initiated in 1998. (Photo: Lucas Ledwaba / Mukurukuru Media)
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Aaaaiii! Plenty of the beneficiaries have died, plenty, plenty…” said Netshivhambe on Tuesday afternoon in reaction to the passing of RT Mavhungu, who was born in 1941.