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There are about three other communal taps in the area but they have been vandalised and no longer function.
“It’s unbearable living in Diepsloot. We are living like animals,” says mother of two
Every day Matsie Mangena from Diepsloot’s Extension 11 in Johannesburg puts her baby on her back and queues for water at one of only two working communal taps in the area. Some days she waits until mid-morning, once the crowds have subsided.
Residents of Diepsloot, one of Gauteng’s most crime-ridden areas, say they are hopeful that measures announced by premier Panyaza Lesufi to fight crime will rid their township of thuggery.