Residents of Makwane in the Maluti-a-Phofung Local Municipality are currently living without water. Spokesperson for Maluti-a-Phofung Water, Teboho Kwakwa, said, there has been a power outage at th.
Article originally by GroundUp/Yamkela Mopeli.
About 90 villages in Qwaqwa in the Free State remain without water though R220 million was allocated to fix the water crisis. Water was intermittent in 2019, then taps ran completely dry in 2020.
Many villagers have to buy water, sold by people with bakkies at R500 for 1 000 litres.
Qwaqwa project ‘far advanced’
“It’s been over a year now with these R500s I pay for water. I could have done something else [with the money],” said villager Khotso Motaung. “We have three dams but none is useful to us.’’
Ward councillors are meant to coordinate with the villagers the rotation of water trucks doing the village rounds. Motaung said villagers wake up early to try and beat queues, when they hear its their turn for the truck, but normally the trucks only arrive between 10am and 11am.