GROUNDUP: Limpopo villagers forced to buy water with social grants in absence of service delivery

, outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo, the situation has only become worse, despite promises made by the district municipality at the time.

In vain, villagers like Ngozi Hlungwani, who is 80 this year, and Sarah Baloyi have been getting up at 6am to cart their empty 200-litre plastic water drums to the side of the road in the hope that the VDM water tanker will eventually show up. Such blue containers can be seen on nearly every street. In the afternoon the two women carry their empty containers back home. This has been going on for five months, they say.

For the past months, villagers have resorted to buying water from private water tankers. They pay R5 for 25 litres. Most families survive on social grants and can hardly afford it.

Fantastic let them suffer and learn the hard way.

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