Water wars boil over in D�Kar
Friday, August 22, 2014
Kuru Development Trust officials found themselves on the back-foot at a Kgotla meeting recently, when enraged D’Kar residents demanded answers on why acute water shortages were persisting in their area despite assurances of relief.
Almost exclusively inhabited by Basarwa of the Kuru tribe, D’Kar is a village in Gantsi of about 1,000 residents which began as a farm then developed into a church-run settlement.
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