Moutse, Limpopo, resident Meshack Mtsweni filling buckets with water at borehole. (Jan Gerber/News24)
Twenty-two-year-old Katlego Makitla has to jog his memory to recall a time when there was running water in rural village, Ntoane, in Moutse, Limpopo.
He was born in the village and has lived there his whole life. He can't recall a time when there was running water in the village.
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