Running water for Mtubatuba community as boreholes restored

After being forced to share dirty streams with livestock, residents of KwaMshaya in Mtubatuba finally have access to clean running water after the refurbishment of five boreholes.

KwaMshaya ward councillor Richard Mkhwanazi welcomed the move as the boreholes have been non-functional since October.

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Community members were previously forced to travel long distances with wheelbarrows or buckets on their heads to one of two working boreholes – with a further five not functional.

Others fetched water from valleys or streams where cows and goats water, while some said they had to purchase drinking water.

Residents said a water tanker had, for months on end, not come to fill up communal tanks.

Mkhwanazi explained that all but one of the five boreholes were serviced on Friday.

This after he had contacted newly-elected uMkhanyakude District Municipality deputy Mayor Killer Mkhwanazi, who is also chair of the portfolio committee on technical services.

Also Induna of the area, Killer Mkhwanazi said the remaining non-functioning borehole would soon be fixed.

‘The truth is, we want to see people getting the services they need regardless of politics or who is in power,’ Mkhwanazi said.

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