Vandals create new setback as Makhanda enters day 9 of dry taps

Thousands of desperate Makhanda residents were fuming and helpless as they entered their ninth day without water on Thursday.

Taps ran dry on February 17 with a catastrophic failure at Makana municipality’s major pumping station at the James Kleynhans water treatment works (JKWTW) at Botha’s Hill some 15km north-east of the small city...

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