Living on muddy water

Name of story: Living on muddy water

Name of Journalist: Sibongile Mashaba

Name of publication: Sowetan

Date: 1 June 2012

Country: South Africa

Theme: Health/Environment/Human rights

Skills: Sources

Genre: News

GEM classification: Gender aware

Description: On any given day the people of Caroline in Mpumalanga have different values from one another, but the water crisis in their small town has united them in a common purpose. Everyone is affected by the water crisis, those who live in town and big and small businesses. People have to walk for several hundred meters to draw water and women are living in fear that they could be raped, their lives are in danger just to get some water.

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