KZN water protests die down
Service delivery protests over water shortages at the Umkhanyakude District Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal are said to have died down.
Protests broke out two weeks ago in the uMtubatuba and Jozini areas where an access road to the Bethesda District Hospital was blocked for days by residents severely affecting health services at the facility.
The Health Department had to airlift critical patients to other hospitals and also used choppers to get in essential supplies.
Yesterday a community hall in KwaMsane was set alight but municipal spokesperson Mduduzi Dlamini says all protests have since stopped.
He says Economic Development MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu met with the Jozini community yesterday.
''COGTA has actually ensured that Umgeni water rehabilitates and refurbishes the oldest scheme so that our people in Umkhanyakude get water during this time of drought and also to [drill] more boreholes for our people because our rivers are dry due to the drought,'' he said.
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