With power cuts and potholes already part of daily life, recent water shortages have increased the frustration of many over poor service delivery -- a key election issue -- in the country's most populous city.
JOHANNESBURG - Anger is mounting in some Johannesburg districts left without water for more than a week, fewer than three months before general elections marked by voter discontent with South Africa's failing infrastructure.
Shouting"We want water" and holding placards reading"No water, this stinks!", a few dozen people protested in a northern Johannesburg district on Tuesday as, some 500 kilometres away in the port city of Durban, students and civil servants demonstrated against blackouts."We've waited long enough, it's been 10 days...
Some 27.5 million South Africans are registered to vote in national and provincial elections on May 29. Tim Truluck, a local councillor of the main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, told AFP that it recently took more than a year to replace the pipes in a single Johannesburg suburb, at a cost of about $5 million.
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