Cape Town water crisis: What you can do to help

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.

drop-off points are:

• Avbob Funeral Directors - 66 Rex Henderson Street

• Zululand Hospice - 18 Turnbull Street

• Oompaloompa Early Learning Centre - Empangeni Methodist Church

• United Bags - 41 Tanner Road. In 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.

Water will be collected from local points daily, before being trucked to Durban’s Gift of the Givers organisation who are coordinating the shipment of donated water from ZKN to the Cape