Residents in some rural Eastern Cape communities endured a black Christmas without electricity after a freak thunderstorm on Saturday left behind a trail of destruction, including broken poles and blown-up transformers.
Thousands of households in water-stressed areas of the Eastern Cape are set to benefit from a water provisioning initiative by the Amatola Water Board. The programme will benefit 120,000 households a day who live in rural parts of the province. In a bid to ensure water security in rural areas, the state-owned water utility is appointing service providers to supply, deliver and install 600 rainwater tanks to the Eastern Cape’s six kingdom palaces.