Standerton experienced its own day zero on 26 March when water supply, that affected all wards, was interrupted.
Domestic workers, no strangers to sporadic supply in the different extensions in Sakhile and Rooikoppen, were somewhat aghast on 27 March that no laundry and washing-up would be possible.
Not to mention intermittent water supply to Meyerville, Kosmospark and Florapark in the past years.
As with any calamity, rumours fled fast and furiously about the time-span involved.
Cell phone and WhatsApp users talked about five or two days, but Ms Thando Skosana of the communications department of the Lekwa Municipality said on 27 March it would probably be restored by 5pm.
Protesters on the R23 towards Johannesburg voiced their dismay by closing off the road with rocks, burning tyres and officers from KSS confirmed it to be water-related.
