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Pretoria latest: 300 000 people left without water “for the next eight months”

The unthinkable has happened in the east of Pretoria, following a barrage of extreme weather over the past seven days. A major pipeline which serves several densely-populated areas of the city has been “washed away”, and according to supplier Magalies Water, there’ll be no permanent fix until next August.

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The damage has put 300 000 people into a very precarious situation. With no running water, contingency plans have already been deployed in Pretoria. A host of JOJO tanks are being transported to those hit hardest by the pipeline catastrophe, and another “alternative solution” has got the go-ahead.

Magalies Water CEO Sandile Mkhize told SABC that construction is underway to build a temporary extraction point, acting as an artificial replacement for the destroyed infrastructure. However, with an eight-month rebuilding job on the horizon, residents will still face long periods of water shortages.

“We have conceptualised an alternative solution where we are going to build a temporary structure across the dam, which will be our temporary abstraction point. We will then bring in abstraction pumps, and then transport the power line from the current pump station, across the river so that we can be able to run the pump station.”

Sandile Mkhize

Where in Pretoria is facing water shortages?

  • Cullinan.
  • Rayton.
  • Refilwe.
  • Petra Diamond Mine.
  • Zonderwater Prison.
  • Sporadic eastern regions of Pretoria.


The mood was already tense in this part of Pretoria, after rolling blackouts outside of the load shedding schedule were reported this weekend. Without warning, residents of Cullinan saw the power go out on Sunday. Meanwhile, locals in Garsfontein are on their eights day without power, and they are understandably fed-up:



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