A week after municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal were lambasted for violating people's human rights by failing to provide clean drinking water, taps ran dry for residents in plush Umhlanga and Durban North, hampering tourism over the Heritage Day long weekend.
What should have been a festive weekend for holidaymakers and the tourism sector, was instead a disaster as taps ran dry until Monday, 25 September.
The city's main beaches also took a battering ahead of the long weekend with at least two independent water tests showing high E.coli levels.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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