Africa's most industrialised economy has been crippled by record power cuts in the past year.
Anger: A resident prepares to throw a tyre on a street barricade in Soshanguve township, north of Pretoria, in a protest on Wednesday about water and power cutsJOHANNESBURG - Already struggling without electricity for hours a day, many South Africans are now having to do also without water, as power outages batter the supply system.
Thomas Mabasa, a rail worker, said he had taken to showering at work -- a luxury not afforded to his children.He was among frustrated locals who took to the streets in Soshanguve, a township north of the capital, this week to protest the situation."Sometimes we wait to see if the water will come back in the middle of the night to wake the kids up so they can shower before it runs out again," Mabasa said, as tyres burned on the street behind him.
Criminality has also contributed to the crisis, with Johannesburg's municipality saying hundreds of water tanks were stolen or vandalised in 2022.Kalafong hospital in Pretoria, endured two days of no water at the weekend.
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