KZN’s Ugu municipality’s threats about ‘chocolate-coloured water’ backfire
Threats of legal action by the Ugu district municipality on the KwaZulu-Natal south coast in response to a social media post on "dirty tap water" backfired when residents produced photographs of muddy tap water on Thursday. The municipality expressed "concern and dissatisfaction" after a photograph of muddy water coming out of a bathroom tap went viral on social media on Wednesday. The municipality said that when it contacted the person who posted the picture on Facebook‚ it discovered "it was a slanderous post". "She could not give details of where this area is [and] instead told the municipality that she also found the photo on Facebook and wrote Ugu water on the picture and circulated it on different community groups‚" the municipality said in the statement.
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