Day Zero BY ALVIN KATHEMBE
Please restrict yourself to two minute, stop-start showers. Collect your bath and basin water and use it for flushing. Only flush when you really need to. Wash hands less frequently – use sanitizer instead. Don't leave the tap running while you brush your teeth. Evenings, in the townships, children's feet skip in the street weaving through the queues forming outside the communal taps. In the hotels, all the bathtub plugs have been taken out. The taps in restaurant bathrooms are blocked. At the GrandWest Arena, where a troupe of world-renowned illusionists are putting up a show, audiences are disappointed that they will not get to see
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