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For 21 Years ANC Promised Flagstaff Running Water At Every Election, Yet Still Flagstaff Waits & Still Flagstaff Votes 84% ANC!

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The residents of the Eastern Cape town of Flagstaff are very discouraged after trying everything possible for two decades to get the ANC to deliver promised tap water to their homes. Well that is everything except voting for another party. It is astounding that black South Africans continue to vote for ANC, despite two decades of failed governance and broken promises. Flagstaff which is 96% black African and 90% Xhosa speaking, voted 84% for the ANC in 2016! However voters are given no viable alternative because ANC and EFF work so hard to demonise minorities and stoke anti minority racism amongst the black majority.

In 1998 the ANC government made promises to the town that running water would be available to them, but the residents had to contribute R10 per household for the taps that each house would receive. The villagers were told to make the once-off contribution of R10 per household and with zeal, the R10 contributions were quickly collected and paid to the ANC governme
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500,000 People in Freestate Goldfields Denied Their Basic Human Right To Water by ANC Corruption & Plundering of Municipal Coffers!

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Half a million people in the Free State Goldfields region experienced the devastating results of municipal thievery and Ace Magashule’s cadre deployment legacy, when taps were dry since Friday. Today, a full half a million people in areas such as Welkom, Odendaalsrus, Virginia, Riebeeckstad and Ventersburg were without running water.

All the reservoirs are empty and plans were desperately being made to shift around and fix old water pumps. The direct cause of the crisis is a pump that broke and the water supplier, Sedibeng Water, being left without funds because of non payment of debt by the local ANC controlled municipality.

Peter, a local resident told us that it is now 4 days and 4 nights that they are without municipal water. They have to manually carry water in buckets to use the toilet. Worse however, is that in Riebeeckstad there is no drinking water for sale, and in Welkom the stock is almost all sold out. Drinking water is a very basic human right and t
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ANC Fails To Provide The Basic Human Right to Water & Sanitation in Many Municipalities Like Wolmaransstad. Local White Community Members Have To Jump in

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Services in yet another ANC run town collapses as water stop flowing in Wolmaransstad. All that remains of this once beautiful Free State town is a filthy dump. It has officially joined the long list of rural municipalities under ANC control where municipal services have ground to a halt. Most parts of Wolmaransstad have been without water for 4 days now and that of course includes schools, businesses, the hospital and the old age home.

Anelle Willemse, who moved to Wolmaransstad 7 years ago and used her pension money to acquire flats which she rents out, spoke to  Netwerk24 about how her her tenants are without water for 5 days now. She says the electricity was also off a while back and the tenants had to throw out meat because it went bad. She also said that in all the years, the refuse at the flats she rents out has never been collected.

Paul van Wyk, who owns an abattoir outside Wolmaransstad, pays up to R1,000 per day to buy water, otherwise he can’t operat
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White Residents go to Court to Take Over Municipal Services After Black Municipality Collapses. They Have Already Taken Over Water Treatment Plant After Water Stopped Running

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The municipality that serves the area comprising Swartruggens, Derby and Koster, south-east of Sun City, in the North-West province has totally stopped functioning and that includes each and every service, even basics like the provision of water. Local residents led by the Rate Payers Association  have declared an emergency and have started to provide the services themselves!

The reason that the municipality can’t provide any services is because all municipal workers are on strike, because the municipality has taken the pension contributions of the workers to pay for other “expenses”. The local residents are already working shifts to run the water treatment plant according to Mr Carel van Heerden of the local ratepayers association who was interviewed by Netwerk24.

The association had to obtain a court order last week to prohibit striking workers from intimidating community volunteers who now operate the water treatment plant . The intervention by the ratepayers
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Water Shortages Arrived in Mpumalanga Towns To Stay – Sundra, Eloff and Rietkol Have Sporadic Water For A Year Now

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Water shortages have become a very real reality for the residents of the neighbouring towns of Sundra, Rietkol and Eloff in Mpumalanga. The towns have been experiencing regular periods in which the water just stops flowing, for a year now . Local resident, Derek Bester, says water supply is unequal and sporadic with lower lying parts left without water for hours per day, and higher parts left without water for weeks at a time.

Residents are surviving using various means like sharing water from drill holes, getting water from farmers in the area and collecting water from their roofs. Those who don’t have any means of getting water on their own have to go to collective water tanks irregularly filled by the local ANC controlled municipality. The neighbourhood watch is delivering water to people without transport like old people in the towns. Afriforum is distributing 5 L cans containing drinking water at no cost.

Amanda Brandow of Sundra says that she can’t even wa
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#TheAfricanWay: Orange Free State Too Dangerous To Live in? Winburg & Kroonstad Have Dead Pigs & Raw Sewage in River & Dam, Too Polluted to Purify!

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Winburg and Kroonstad’s water has become so polluted that it is not possible to purify it with chemicals anymore. The water supplied in the pipe system and coming out of taps in the towns has become so polluted by raw sewage, that it has become impossible to drink because of the serious health hazard.

In Winburg the water that is coming out of taps is grass green since 28 December 2019. The DA has now laid criminal charges in terms of the Water Act against the Mayor and municipal manager for criminal negligence for their failure to provide clean water, but what will that help?

 

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Local residents have placed pictures on Facebook of dead pigs that float in the water in the Vals
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Unpalatable brown water pours from taps in Parys due to many years of poor maintenance and neglect by the incompetent ANC-regime

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“When people wash their clothes, they come out dirtier than before. There is no healthy water to drink,” she said.

A resident, who asked to remain anonymous, said, “We have been promised better water but nothing changes. We don’t have a choice but to drink it and use it on a daily basis. Even though it’s not safe, we drink it. We don’t wear white clothes any more because how will we wash it?” he asked.

Another resident, Nomakhaza Moloi, said it was a huge inconvenience.

“There are red worms coming out of the water and it stinks like sewage. We can’t cook with it or drink it. If you can afford, you have to buy your own, if not you use the same water. It’s bad.

” We don’t lead normal lives. We are four in the house … imagine families that don’t have any income,” Moloi said.

“What are the vulnerable supposed to do? The old, sick and young are mostly victimised.”

Ngwathe local municipality councillor Andries Vrey said tha
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VIVA ANC! Bethal has been without water for 26 consecutive days after ANC takeover

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FF Plus is about to put a complaint in at the Human Rights Commission (HRC) after large parts of ANC-controlled Bethal, Mpumalanga’s taps have already been dry for 26 consecutive days.

The problems of the Govan Mbeki local municipality apparently arose just a month after the ANC took over the municipality after the local by-election held on October 9. FF Plus councillor, Deon De Vries said that the FF Plus only needed votes after the DA ward councillor resigned. The FF Plus’ support grew from 4.31% to 35.4% but was still just too low to secure a victory. De Vries says the cause of this water shortage is unknown.

But, according to some sources, the bulk water supplier, Rand Water, has not installed enough pumps to supply enough water to the town, while there is also the possibility that Rand Water has imposed water restrictions due to overdue water debt of R272 million from the Govan Mbeki municipality.

Meanwhile, all residents of Bethal and the Govan Mbeki Mun
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Holidaymakers need to drive careful this festive season, the country’s roads are dangerous because of increased potholes caused by heavy rain

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Water flowing in streets and roads looks like small rivers and is becoming dangerous because of increasing potholes that can damage vehicle tires.

Several incidents have already occurred from potholes that are invisible due to the water on the driving surface, and tires are damaged which means a tire needs to be replaced in the rain.

A government spokesman warned motorists to drive very carefully where the wet roads are slippery and often have large potholes that are formed after heavy rains.

The danger also exists that a damaged tire can create the vehicle to imbalance and cause accidents. Driving to fast in this rainy weather can increases the risk of dangerous accidents.

Roads become more dangerous due to heavy rains that cause flooding, and smaller potholes become larger and sometimes much deeper, increasing tire damage.

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Smeek vir Reën deur Marthie Nel Hauptfleisch – Smeek vir reen in Sutherland en Die Kaap

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Smeek vir Reën deur Marthie Nel Hauptfleisch – Smeek vir reen in Sutherland en Die Kaap

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I thought I would share my story with you. I lived in Canada for ten years and returned to South Africa- now it is my passion to contribute to society through songwriting. This drought project is close to my heart. Especially because the child who was born in Canada wrote the press release for me before he left for Plett Rage: ten years abroad, ten years back Who knew?!- we all have a role to play in whatever little way possible…

When thinking about South Africa it is hard to ignore that with our amazing warm weather comes the opportunity for drought. We in the Western Cape are far too familiar with drought and how it can affect our communities after the Day Zero scare of 2018 but the people of Sutherland in the Northern Cape
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