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Protesting residents at Dan village outside Tzaneen in Limpopo have blockaded the R36 road between linking Tzaneen and Hoedspruit.

at Dan village outside Tzaneen in Limpopo have blockaded the R36 between Tzaneen and Hoedspruit. They’re accusing the municipal authorities of intentionally cutting the water supply to the area in order to award tenders to business-people with water tankers.the road between Dan and Khujwana villages. Hundreds of protesting residents at Dan village are demanding to be provided with clean drinking water. They have vowed to continue with the protest until the water supply is restored.

They were barricading the R36 linking Tzaneen, Hoedspruit and Lydenburg. The road between Dan and Kujwana villages also barricaded. Residents say they without water for several months. “Nothing is going, we going to stand here until Jesus comes back because the comrades bought water truck, they want to benefit they don’t want open water there’s no problem there’s no broken they want benefiting tenders from municipality and supply water in the villages. We have three months without water we have nothing at all the Greater Tzaneen municipality lies to us,” said one resident.

The Mopani District Municipality has blamed the lack of water at Dan village on a damaged valve at the reservoir. The spokesperson, Odas Ngobeni, says the problem is being attended to. Ngobeni has promised that water will be restored within 48 hours. Another resident added that, “The gate valve got damaged which needed to be replaced water will be restored within 48 hours because we are hope that the gate valve that we have ordered will be delivered unfortunately the supplier delivered the wrong size our team will be on site to ensure that the gate valve is resolved the normal water supply will be restored.

 

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I'm frm Dan Village there was a certain standard of living in our village. During the Homeland government we had Nkowankowa Industries, Bindzulani Shopping centre, Tivumbeni College of Education & Water in our backyards this was during the1980s, now everything is not working💔😭

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It was about time my community stand up.

They must not dig up the road, God knows that road is finished as it is

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