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The Dawid Kruiper Municipality at Upington in the Northern Cape says it is struggling to fill its water reservoirs because of rolling blackouts.

Ulrich Hendriks

Temperatures in one of South Africa’s hottest towns have been hovering around the mid-thirties for the past week with no respite in sight. Spokesperson for Dawid Kruiper Municipality, Patrick Williams, say the continued rolling blackouts and high water demand have left reservoirs near empty. Reservoir levels are critically low, and the municipality is not getting enough time to refill them.“As we all know the water is pumped from the river by machines that are operated by electricity. So as a result of loadshedding, we are struggling to pump water into the reservoirs.

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Nope just incompetent officials

All by design!

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