South Africa: Protests in Ladysmith

Frustration mounts as Ladysmith residents protest against month-long water outage.

Frustrated Ladysmith residents, who have been without a water supply for a month, protested outside the uThukela District Municipality’s offices on Friday.

Residents were told that the water supply could be restored on Saturday night once pumps were functioning at the eZakheni (eMbizeni) Water Treatment Works.

Maseehullah Gaffar, chairperson of the Ladysmith Civic Association, said enough was enough and decided to get answers directly from the source of the problem and where management of uThukela was based.

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