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Taps are dry but compassion flows in Mpumalanga towns

02 July 2019 - 05:59 By Belinda Pheto
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Amon Maseko, 81, has to walk 2km to the communal water tanks, then push 60 litres back home on a wheelbarrow.
Amon Maseko, 81, has to walk 2km to the communal water tanks, then push 60 litres back home on a wheelbarrow.
Image: Lucky Lekalakala

The 2km walk to fetch water from a tank in the centre of Sundra is the easy part of 81-year-old Amon Maseko’s journey. It is the journey back, heaving four 20-litre containers on a wheelbarrow, that is back-breaking.

Maseko’s desperate need for water is echoed by the residents of the Victor Khanye local municipality in Mpumalanga, where non-payment of their water bill to Rand Water has led to a drastic reduction in supply.

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