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Where has all the water gone?

By HELEN HOLLEMAN “I want to show you a big water leak,” said Masixole Gagayi. We drove from his house north of Extension 6 towards the Mayfield sewage works and walked up a hill to an astonishing sight: clear, fresh water pouring out of four holes in a huge concrete, bunker-like structure. In eThembeni informal settlement, where Masixole lives, the only water comes from standpipes in the streets. “Can we build a windmill?” he asked. Tempting thought, but reporting it to the Municipality was top priority. The concrete ‘bunker’ – a large valve chamber for managing the supply – forms part of the pipeline from the Botha’s Hill reservoir to the reservoirs that feed the town. An on-the-spot estimate (later checked more accurately) by a water engineer gave an amount of three litres per second from one of the holes; four such holes meant an estimated loss of 12 litres per second. Calculated out, this comes to a loss of more than one million litres per day in a town wh

Township rubbish collection halts after vehicles torched

You are at:Home»OUR TOWN»Civic»Township rubbish collection halts after vehicles torched Makana Mayor Mzukisi Mpahlwa and Ward 2 councillor Ramie Xonxa address residents at eNkanini informal settlement on Friday 9 April. Photo: Sue Maclennan Township rubbish collection halts after vehicles torched Makana Municipality has suspended refuse collection services in Makhanda’s township areas this week, after two municipal vehicles were set alight. The incidents occurred at times when service-delivery protests were under way. In the most recent incident, on Monday 12 April, a Makana employee was forced to hand over the keys of a municipal bakkie and flee when a large crowd stopped him, seized the vehicle and set it alight. Police spokesperson Captain Khaya Tonjeni said the incident occurred shortly after 3.30pm in Extension 9, Joza, between the Mayfield housing development and eNkanini informal settlement.

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