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“The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, the main water supply to South Africa’s economic hub, greater Johannesburg in Gauteng, and to the country’s breadbasket in the Free State, is scheduled to be cut off for six months. The project is a large-scale supply scheme in which water is diverted from the highlands of Lesotho to South Africa’s Free State and the greater
