For five years he’s trudged 16km for dirty water: how failed councils are ruining lives

Crumbling infrastructure, petty politics, dismal finances ... meet the North West people who suffer because of it

25 October 2020 - 18:34 By mpumzi zuzile

Reuben Musiyiwa drives about 16km twice a week to fetch unpurified water for his wife and three children from a borehole built by a garage owner. Musiyiwa, like everybody else in Letlhabile, outside Brits in the Madibeng Municipality, has been without running water for nearly five years...

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