DAY ZERO LOOMS FOR NELSON MANDELA BAY
‘SOMETIMES WE GO FOR ABOUT TWO OR THREE DAYS WITHOUT WATER’
IT’S known as the Sunshine Coast, a stretch along the Indian Ocean that includes some of the most sought-after holiday destinations in the land. Silvery beaches, warm water, curling waves that are a surfer’s dream – you name it, this area has it all. But if things carry on the way they are, it’s unlikely many pleasure-seekers will be flocking to this area of the Eastern Cape in a hurry. Loadshedding isn’t the only hardship hammering the people who live here – watershedding is a daily reality for many too.
Day Zero – the day the taps run dry – is looming large and for hundreds of thousands of people in Nelson Mandela Bay and its surroundings, the precious commodity is so severely restricted it’s cut off for hours every day.
“Sometimes we go for about two or three days without water,”
