It bills itself as a 'world-class African city' but these days residents say it's anything but — with the collapse of the water system and frequent power outages.
It bills itself as a"world-class African city" but these days residents say it's anything but — with the collapse of the water system and frequent power outages.South Africans have had to line up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts a collapse of its water system affecting millions of people.
Soweto, once home to anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, has always been a stronghold of the governing African National Congress party. Numerous recent polls have shown the ANC getting below 50% of the vote in elections on May 29 — for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994. For most residents of Soweto — where ramshackle convenience stores display hand-painted advertisements for junk food; a tailor has set up his sewing machine business on the sidewalk; a, or traditional medicine shop, flogs"cures" for all ailments; and a funeral home advertises named"Obama tombstones" — leaving is hardly an option.
His office blames a heat wave for surging demand, as well as events out of the municipal government's control — like a lightning strike at a water pump station at the start of March.
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