The City of Cape Town’s Water and Sanitation Directorate has successfully restored water supply to all areas in Khayelitsha following the completion of complex emergency valve repairs.
Operational teams spent Wednesday, 9 July, actively opening valves across the network to ensure that the system is fully recharged. Water supply has returned to all previously affected areas in Khayelitsha including Harare, Kuyasa, Monwabisi Park, New Monwabisi and Ilitha Park.
‘Although some areas may still experience low water pressure, this is expected to improve as the system stabilises and pressure builds up fully. Should water pressure not improve overnight, residents are kindly requested to log a service request so the teams can attend to it promptly.
‘The City sincerely thanks residents for their patience and understanding during this extended disruption,’ said Councillor Zahid Badroodien, Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation.
The City, together with the ward councillors, are monitoring the situation closely to ensure no further disruptions to the water supply. Please report any ongoing ‘no water’ complaints through the service request portal:
- Online www.capetown.gov.za/servicerequests
- Email water@capetown.gov.za
- SMS 31373 (maximum 160 characters. Standard rates apply)
- Call 0860 103 089
- Visit a City walk-in centre (see www.capetown.gov.za/facilities to find the one closest to you)
Important advice to residents:
- After supply is restored, water may appear discoloured. This is normal. Allow it to run until clear; the water is safe to drink.
- Any trapped air in the pipelines will dissipate as water flows through.
- Please consider collecting initial discoloured water for secondary use, such as flushing toilets or cleaning.
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Stud Buster
Van is getting married, but he and his fiancee have never done the deed – in fact he\’s never been with any woman before. He\’s getting more and more nervous as the big day approaches, so he confides in his friend. His friend says \’No worries man. I\’ll come by the honeymoon suite before you guys get there, and I\’ll hide behind the curtain, and I\’ll whisper instructions to you.\’
\’You\’d do that for me?\’
\’Sure thing man!\’
So the wedding day arrives, it was a lovely service (so I was told, I wasn\’t there myself) and Van\’s friend sneaks into the honeymoon suite as promised and hides behind the curtain.
Van and his new wife arrive in the room, get settled on the bed, and things are getting steamy.
But Van is still super nervous and his tummy is bubbling, so he murmers to his wife, \’Listen babe, I\’m just gonna go to the bathroom quick. I think it\’s that wors roll from earlier.\’
\’Sure thing babe.\’
So Van goes into the bathroom, and he\’s taking quite a long time. And his wife is starting to feel the nerves herself. And it\’s getting worse. She can\’t hold it in. But she doesn\’t want to go after he\’s gone and totally ruin the mood. So she looks around and finally finds a shoebox. Quickly, she does her business in the shoebox, and she shoves it under the bed just as Van comes back from the loo.
Van gets back on the bed and they go at it again. But after a minute or so Van smells something not so lekker.
\’What\’s that smell?\’
\’Nothing babe,\’ he wife tries to assure him.
\’No man there\’s definitely something not so lekker in this room!\’VSo Van starts looking around the room, in the corners, in the cupboard, and finally he looks under the bed, and sees the shoebox.
He pull it out, and opens it up, and in horror he shouts \’Sies! Daar\’s kak in hierdie doos!\’
And from behind the curtain his friend yells, \’NEE MAN, DRAAI HAAR OM!\”