President Cyril Ramaphosa has assured South Africans that government is working to ensure water security.
He was speaking during his visit to the water-scarce Ekangala region in Mpumalanga yesterday.
Residents of Ekangala and the surrounding areas in Emalahleni have been without water for weeks.
But the problem stretches to other provinces with Hammanskraal in Gauteng known to have been the hardest hit in the province.
Soweto is also experiencing such problem, as well as most parts of northern KwaZulu-Natal including Msinga.
President Ramaphosa says water shortage is a country-wide problem.
“Water is a challenge because of aging infrastructure and it is not that we are not doing anything, we are going to get more and more capacity of water. It’s going to take a bit of time but we are going to solve it.”
“We are going to address the water challenges and that’s why I brought in the Water and Sanitation Minister [Senzo Mchunu] as well and we are going to address the water crisis frontally and we are going to be honest with our people,” adds Ramaphosa.
