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Cape Town water crisis: How you can help

With the water crisis in Cape Town making international news headlines, Zululanders have wasted no time and have come forward to act as drop-off points for water bottle and container donations

ZULULAND business owners are lining up to assist our Cape friends during their headlong rush towards ‘Day Zero’.

With the water crisis in Cape Town making international news headlines, Zululanders have wasted no time and have come forward to act as drop-off points for water bottle and container donations.

These donations will then be collected daily by KwaGijima Express Services from points in Empangeni and Richards Bay, and be taken to the Durban Gift of the Givers central collection point for shipment to the Cape.

Empangeni resident Karen Sclanders took these comparative photographs when flying from Durban to Cape Town last week – Cape Town (left) and the KZN countryside (right). Though the local water situation is still not healthy at all, the pictures show what the ravaged Cape countryside looks like at the moment
PHOTO: FACEBOOK/Karen Von Albach Sclanders

Empangeni drop-off points are:

• Avbob Funeral Directors – 66 Rex Henderson Street

• Zululand Hospice – 18 Turnbull Street

• Oompaloompa Early Learning Centre – 1 Conrad Avenue

• United Bags – 41 Tanner Road.

In Richards Bay, water bottles and containers can be delivered to

• Outlook Church – Barbit Bow, Birdswood

• Richards Bay Rugby Club – uMhlathuze Sports Complex.

Rhona Fourie of KwaGijima Express Services says the company will be visiting drop-off points on a daily basis.

‘We are committed to getting the trucks to the Gift of the Givers in Durban each afternoon, from where it will be shipped to the Cape,’ she said.

‘All companies, schools and community groups are called upon to assist by dropping off water bottles at these points, and we will take over from there,’ she said.

For information on collections in your area, contact (in Richards Bay) Henning on 081 4336643 and (in Empangeni) Martha on 082 6899894.

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