Joburg residents urged not to panic-buy in response to water maintenance outages

Essential maintenance and temporary shutdown of Lesotho Highlands project will see cuts to vital service

16 June 2024 - 00:00

Joburg residents went into panic mode after Rand Water announced several weeks of maintenance followed by a six-month shutdown notice from the Lesotho Highlands Water Scheme (LHWS), which will result in water outages in Gauteng and the Free State...

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