LUCAS LEDWABA
A GROUP of women and children are busy filling up dozens of 25 litre containers of water at a municipal borehole in Malanga, a village in the Collins Chabane local municipality in Limpopo.
“We have been here since very early today. We have to stand in a line to be first to fill up when they open the water at nine o’clock,” one of the agitated voices rises through the commotion.
Some of the women have brought their bales of laundry to wash right there by the borehole.
They have walked long distances from different parts of the village to reach the borehole.
Other reveal they have paid the driver of a bakkie which reverses to load some of the water containers R150 to transport the filled up sgubhus back home.
Sometimes when the borehole runs dry, then they have to buy the water for as much
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