More than 5,000 Chris Hani Village residents decided to block off Kariega’s streets on Friday in order to pressure the local government into giving them more Jojo tanks and water tankers.

However, the large community demonstration looks to have been avoided thanks to the arrival of much-needed water tankers on Monday and the presence of President Cyril Ramaphosa.

 
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Siya Mama, a spokesperson for the Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee, claimed that people were taken aback to discover numerous water trucks lining their streets early on Monday.

Given that the 5,000 villagers had spent months squeezing and pushing one another to get water from a single Jojo tank in the neighborhood, he remarked that this was remarkable.

Ramaphosa visited the Metro on Monday to celebrate Mandela Day with the locals. He made use of the occasion to reassure the populace that the administration would work to delay Day Zero.

He started by going to the Nooitgedacht Water Treatment Works, which is where water is transferred from the water-scarce Nelson Mandela Bay in the Free State from the Gariep Dam.