Electricity problems have led to water shortages and those with money are digging their own boreholes.
The peace of a normally tranquil suburban road near South Africa's capital, Pretoria, is being shattered by the sound of drilling.
"Having a borehole means we won't have to depend on the government so much, it's what's best for my family." "Some days I don't have both water and electricity, and this can be for days at a time. It makes daily life insufferable," says Zizi Dlanga, a 35-year-old private wealth manager. "We are in a state of systemic failure, the water sector is collapsing," expert Prof Anthony Turton tells the BBC.
In just a few weeks in Hammanskraal, a township outside Pretoria, 29 people were killed by cholera that had been found in the water supply there. The outbreak has been linked to substandard water purification practices. The problem can be found across the country. In the Eastern Cape's quaint arts town of Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown, residents have for years been forced to contend with unsafe drinking water, with recurring bouts of E.coli contamination.
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