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Week without water brings Joburg residents onto the streets

Areas supplied by the Commando system are among the worst affected by the city’s water crisis

Mayfair residents protested on Saturday, demanding water after a week-long outage. Photos: Seth Thorne
Mayfair West resident Ayesha Kajee has not had tap water for a week. This has become common over the past six years in Johannesburg’s high-lying areas, and when there is water, supply is throttled at night.
Kajee said she has experienced first-hand how the lack of water diminishes people’s dignity. For the past ten years she has taken care of her elderly mother.
“Towards the end of her life, my mother was bed-ridden. You can imagine how difficult it is to care for somebody who is bed-ridden without water.”
“My mother had an autoimmune disease and picked up regular infections because of a lack of water,”…

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