This is how Tongaat got running water after 200 dry days - It took threats of legal action, ‘forced’ negotiations and a series of angry protests to finally get a temporary solution
, claiming 460 lives and displacing 6 000 people. More than 8 000 houses, many informal and built on unstable foundations, slid down the city’s hills as the rains poured. Climate reports say these were among the worst weather events on the continent this year.and located on the uTongathi River, the town of Tongaat was established by British sugar barons to house indentured labourers — mostly from India — in the 19th century. Later, it became a haven for liberation struggle leaders.
A renewed wave of direct action surged through the small town, as the residents found themselves having to fight the province’s metropolitan municipality to reconnect its water supply nearly six months after the disaster. After a series of protests, including one in which residents symbolically burned a plastic water tank supplied by authorities, they have finally been given time lines and a temporary solution until the area is again connected to the eThekwini metro water grid.
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