Families drink from drains as water trucks break down

Amathole district municipality spokesperson Nonceba Madikizela-Vuso said the Gcuwa Dam which supplies Butterworth and surrounding areas, and the three dams which supply Dutywa town, are all dry.

Butterworth families say there is another problem: instead of filling up the communal tanks, truck drivers fill private tanks, charging the owners R1,500 to R2,000 and leaving those who do not have tanks struggling for water. The Butterworth water crisis has been long in the making. In 2015 the town was declared a drought disaster by then Eastern Cape premier Phumulo Masualle.

Despite paying a fortune to these tenderpreneurs.

It's a norm in rural areas, do you people still go to your own iNkandlas?

pienaarvw89 Where is the mayor and municipal manager? Where is the capital project budget for this munic. This is heartbreaking. 26 years on and still no water... Instead of paying millions to cadres help the people man. Cap salaries, have performance contracts and get rid of incompetence.

AllisonFarah1 Where is LindiweSisuluSA ? Jissus this cannot be right that people have to resort to this sort of drastic measure to get drinking water. CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA

My God, thats heartbreaking and unacceptable.

SouthAfricansP1 Covid finna kill us all

Sometimes we gotta rise up and save ourselves. Put monies together and drill borehole

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