Tongaat residents were seen collecting water from the public showers at Westbrook Beach on Sunday after four days of no water.
Some Tongaat community members took to Ghandi’s Hill in protest on Sunday night, demanding that water be restored.
The desperate protest action came shortly after DA PR councillor Yogiswarie Govender and DA Ward 58 councillor Geoff Pullan told residents at a community meeting at Tongaat Town Hall on Sunday afternoon that they could not explain the water cuts. “Where are the municipality’s operational managers? Where are the water engineers to come out and explain to residents what is going on?” asked an agitated resident.Another resident urged councillor Pullan to realise that sincere compassion was expected from councillors, as citizens’ votes had put them into leadership in the first place.“When we call the relevant municipal officials, they don’t answer our calls either,” he said.
Councillor Govender said seven water tankers had been sent to Tongaat as a short term measure, but they could not deliver water to the entire area, which is made up of about 40 suburbs.
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