Tuesday, January 10, 2006
SA girl's electrocution ignites service debate - BBC News
Oprah Rapuleng was due to start school on Wednesday, like other six-year-old South Africans, however she was electrocuted after drinking water from a standpipe near her Soweto home, in a case which has caused outrage among her friends and neighbours. They claim that shoddy work by the company which installed pre-paid water meters affected the electrical system, resulting in her death.
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"Every time it's raining, the tap will click, then the lightning will strike. We are afraid of using the tap [so] we will close it with a cloth." ...
Oprah Rapuleng was due to start school on Wednesday, like other six-year-old South Africans, however she was electrocuted after drinking water from a standpipe near her Soweto home, in a case which has caused outrage among her friends and neighbours. They claim that shoddy work by the company which installed pre-paid water meters affected the electrical system, resulting in her death.
...
"Every time it's raining, the tap will click, then the lightning will strike. We are afraid of using the tap [so] we will close it with a cloth." ...
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