The water shortage affecting some states in South Africa is now forcing
people to travel miles just to find a working toilet. According to the
News 24 website, employees at the Department of Social Development in
Mpumalanga in the east of the country are having to drive 6km (4 miles)
to a shopping mall in order to answer the call of nature.
The department is said to be a local office helping South Africans
alleviate poverty and provide social welfare services, but staffs are
complaining that the situation now forces them to leave clients in the
lurch as they go in search of lavatories.
‘I kept on asking why I am not attended to and I was told that the
person who has to help me went to the bathroom, as there was no water in
the building,’ one angry client told News 24.
