5 years after son killed in protest, Mothutlung family still fights water battle

JOHANNESBURG – Five years after a deadly protest in a North West over water cuts, one family who lost their loved one say that they feel that all their efforts were in vain.

Rahube, who was en route to work, was mistakenly shot by a policeman, who also killed two other people. Eyewitness News bore witness to this, seeing the milky water laced with green algae gushing through a tap situated in the Rahube family's front yard.Johannes Rahube shows us his unpaid municipal bill which he refuses to pay, saying that he can’t even use the water for basics like cooking.

The Rahube family are forced to spend more than R500 every month on bottled water, using their meagre pension grant money.

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