South Africa: Tourists Return to KZN South Coast, but Water Problems Persist

Efforts by residents and businesses on KwaZulu-Natal's south coast are slowly turning parts of the area back into an attractive tourist destination.

A visit earlier this month revealed a much cleaner and seemingly safer town, although infrastructural problems such as exposed water supply pipes and water and sewage leaks were still evident. Margate Sands, a 63-unit complex in the heart of Margate, is also fully booked for Easter according to Pearl Susha at the reservations office.

Local Wakefields estate agent Wane Lowson also said the town had started"coming right" about two years ago, which is about when Tidy Towns was established. He said most businesses, especially those catering for tourists, use a combination of water tanks and boreholes to mitigate municipal water outages.

"We're the last on the water line, so when there's any problem on that line, we end up with no water," Bosch told us in early March, after five days without a water supply. Busi Khumalo, who lives with her daughter and two grandchildren, aged 12 and 14, on the slope of a valley about a kilometre from Thutshini, said she was hospitalised eight months ago due to ongoing severe diarrhoea. She suspects the locally sourced water. She said the water truck that came two days earlier had missed the drums she put out. She has a car and drives to a shop to buy drinking water.

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