Posted on 04/04/2024 4:39:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
JOHANNESBURG — Lungile Khoza is at her wits' end. The mother of four has been without water at her home for three weeks, the kids are dehydrated and sick, and she can't run her small hair salon so she's losing money.
Khoza, 37, lives in Soweto, a sprawling township of Johannesburg, which is among the areas worst hit by a water crisis in the city. She says there are sometimes government trucks distributing water, but it often runs out before you make it to the front of the line.
Then she says, the water seems to cause stomach problems for her family, but — to add insult to injury — she can't even boil it because she's often also without electricity.
Khoza doesn't hesitate when asked who she blames for the current crisis.
"Our government is failing us, our government is so failing us," she says. "It's not getting better, it's getting worse."
Johannesburgadvertises itself as "a world-class African city," but a breakdown in basic services has many of its more than 5.5 million residents seething. About half of its population has been without water or suffering water shortages for weeks. With a national election set for May, South Africa's governing party could be punished for it at the polls.
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“Then she says, the water seems to cause stomach problems for her family, but — to add insult to injury — she can’t even boil it because she’s often also without electricity.”
Sorry, Lungile, but it wasn’t always this way. Johannesburg WAS one time a world-class city. You probably know why it’s now a bleep-hole city. Elections have consequences.
First successful heart transplant was performed there if I remember correctly.
Or when we are FORCED to “allow it”.
At 37, she isn’t old enough to know how good it once was.
Never mind, it was Cape Town.
Yes, it was!
South Africa had one of the most stable and successful economies in the world until the ANC took over.
Ain’t communism wonderful!
“First successful heart transplant was performed there if I remember correctly.”
I remember that too.
Dr. Christian Barnard in 1967.
Really...who cares? The racist nitwits who run that failed country deserve what they get.
Where is the children’s father(s)?
“Our government is failing us, our government is so failing us,” soon to come to a city near you.
Did YOU vote for Trump in 2020?
Do YOU deserve what Biden et al have been serving up?
Kingfish could have hatched a plan to take it down likety split.
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“Their high-water mark was Rorke’s Drift.”
IMO, their high-water mark was Isandlwana, not Rorke’s Drift. Went down hill from there.
“Back in Soweto, Zanele Sithole, a 52-year-old activist, says....”
You can’t make this stuff up.
No concern anything South Africa.
They brought the house down upon themselves
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