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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mogomotsi Magome

In South Africa, a community struggling for clean water reflects wider discontent ahead of election

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On days when a municipal truck comes to Hammanskraal to deliver drinking water, a queue of South Africans starts forming early in the morning to fill their buckets.

This is not a distant, rural community, but a township on the edge of the administrative capital city of Africa's most advanced economy. It's barely 30 miles from the government buildings in nearby Pretoria.

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