South Africa Water Crisis: Local Leaders Criticized Over Water Supply

…the whole of South Africa. Just look at the companies that could come here, just look at how much this beauty of ours is said to be worth.

But the failure of our leaders to deliver is very disappointing.

But what is the painful part? Like someone who can't drink water, while the river is right there before their eyes.

Even cows and goats drink better than we do as people.

We ask why, why they want us to live on water tanks.

We know, we know. There's money to be made where there are water tanks.

They trust the money to be made where there are water tanks.

I saw all the boards they put up, decorated with their own pictures.

We get paid in money for tea. We get paid in tea money.

No, not everyone. That's where I got stuck.

Whose? The local ancestors. Hey, hit it so they think I'm a witch today.

They know we're struggling with the fire's real pain.

The truth is, our leaders Because of their failures, they put us in a very difficult situation.

They make us go and protest, to ask for what we need to live.

You know, when the power goes out. We can light candles, we can make a fire.

We’ve already suffered through the hardship of load shedding under the ANC.

But water is a different matter. Water is needed for cooking, washing, and for people to take their pills.

So just leave them to act like animals if they can’t supply us with water from the tap.

They should have decided to install boreholes throughout the residential areas so we wouldn’t have to wait for water tankers that cost 10,000 or 20,000 a day.

Today we’ll tell them that in just 20 days, it’ll be over.

The contract has only 20 days left. We say?

We say?

But then, but then.