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Mpumalanga municipality admits taps are dry – but blames City of Tshwane

Tshwane is contracted to supply 16.6-million litres a day but has only been supplying 350,000

Hlengiwe Mtsweni sits with empty buckets at the dry tap in her yard in Thembalethu village, Mpumalanga. Photo: Warren Mabona.

Residents in Thembisile Hani Local Municipality often go without water for days.
The DA has taken the municipality to court for failing its constitutional duty.
But the municipality blames its bulk water suppliers, including City of Tshwane and Dr JS Moroka Local Municipality, for the water shortages.

“We sometimes spend the whole week without getting water from our taps,” said Hlengiwe Mtsweni, a resident of Thembalethu village in Mpumalanga’s Thembisile Hani Local Municipality. “I have to spend R300 every month buying water from people who sell it on our streets.”
Sphiwe Ntuli of Tweefontein G village said that they only…

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