Most residents of Mkhonto Square in Nyanga have no water taps on their plots. But they are sent bills which they collect from the local crèche with their other mail, since they have no street addresses.
Community leader Kholeka Bangani said about 450 families depended on two communal taps for water in Mkhonto Square. “Sometimes we wake up at 3am and flock to the two water taps to get water to drink, wash and cook,” she said.Nophelo Hekeni, who lives in a shack with her husband and three children, showed Groundup a water bill of R153 she received about three months ago. Hekeni said she had bought water pipes and connected them to nearby city water pipes before putting up a tap in her yard.
Seventy-year-old Margaret Mbotshana, who lives with her daughter and three grandchildren, has a bill for R18,581 for water.Mbotshana said: “I’m not interested in the letters because I have no water tap in my shack and I collect water from a far-off water tap.”
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