Gauteng residents stranded without water 

PHUTI MOSOMANE

GAUTENG residents in many parts of the province were left without any water due to a power failure at Rand Water’s Zuikerbosch purification plant.

On Wednesday, Rand Water said technicians have since been dispatched to attend to the problem.

However, late in the afternoon Johannesburg Water Agency said the power failure at Rand Water’s Zuikerbosch purification plant has been resolved. 

“The purification plant is in the process of regaining normal operations. Once the plant is back online, pumping will resume to the various pump stations which were impacted by the reduced capacity from earlier this morning,” Johannesburg Water said in a statement. 

It also announced that it planned water interruptions on Thursday (9 March) in Naledi Ext 2, and Protea North. 

The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng said it is demanding that Rand Water urgently put a turnaround strategy in place to address the constant failure of their infrastructure.