Residents of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape are experiencing the worst drought in more than a century
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the worst drought in more than a centuryThe municipality says it's drilling boreholes and building a new reservoir and government has pledged to tackle the water crisis with a new master plan.The Karoo region has always been parched. Karoo means 'land of thirst' in the language of its earliest inhabitants, the Khoisan hunter-gatherers.
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