By Wednesday this week, many residents in Louis Trichardt and Tshikota were still left to their own devices in a constant battle for clean drinking water as the Vhembe District Municipality (VDM) has seemingly all but lost complete control over the ongoing water-supply crisis in the district.
For weeks now, residents of these townships have had to either buy or pump their own borehole water as shutdown after shutdown of the Albasini Dam raw-water treatment plant occurred because of bre...