{"id":232398,"date":"2022-07-26T12:06:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/after-9-months-relief-for-thirsty-madibeng-residents\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T10:06:25","slug":"after-9-months-relief-for-thirsty-madibeng-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/after-9-months-relief-for-thirsty-madibeng-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"After 9 months, relief for thirsty Madibeng villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Promise Ngozo, of Itireleng village in Madibeng, said, \u201cWe were suffering as residents. Having water back after this long time means a lot to us. Sometimes we spent days without water at home, and we had to walk long distances to get it with wheelbarrows.\u201d Photo: Chris Gilili<\/p>\n

After waiting nine months, over 2,000 residents of Itireleng, a village in the North West Province close to the Gauteng border, have water in their taps again.<\/p>\n

Standpipes ran dry in October 2021, leaving Itireleng without water<\/a>. Madibeng Local Municipality\u2019s enormous debt to the City of Tshwane caused the City to reduce the water pressure of its supply to the area.<\/p>\n

Villagers had to walk long distances to streams and makeshift wells. Water trucks were scarce and unreliable.<\/p>\n

In June we reported that protests<\/a> had broken out in Hebron, 10km away, where taps had also run dry in October.<\/p>\n

According to Ward 10 Councillor Fenky Phaloane (ANC), Madibeng has paid R155-million of its debt to Tshwane, but still owes R100-million.<\/p>\n

\u201cTshwane has now released the pressure of the water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Phaloane said he could now safely say that water is back for good in Itireleng and the other villages that were affected.<\/p>\n

He said that the municipality had decided that every household will pay R72 monthly for access to water to avoid a similar situation developing in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also doing this in response to the Auditor-General\u2019s report, which has cited that our municipality fails to collect revenue. This is one of the major reasons why Madibeng is always under administration,\u201d said Phaloane.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was starting to lose any hope that we would have running water again. This is such a huge relief for us,\u201d said resident Nokuthula Tshuma. \u201cHuman life depends on water, now we will have a normal life again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Promise Ngozo, of Itireleng village in Madibeng, said, \u201cWe were suffering as residents. Having water back after this long time means a lot to us. Sometimes we spent days without water at home, and we had to walk long distances to get it with wheelbarrows.\u201d Photo: Chris Gilili After waiting nine months, over 2,000 residents […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9928],"tags":[28001],"class_list":{"0":"post-232398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-groundup","8":"tag-groundup","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/after-9-months-relief-for-thirsty-madibeng-villagers.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}