Yet again, black blindness.  They refuse to recognise the colossal, exponential increase in the black population of Cape Town. When I first arrived there,  in 1976,  only Gugs and Nyanga existed as black townships, and there was a tiny population of about 1000 blacks.   Cape Town's population was mainly white and coloured   In the months before the first free elections,  the ANC were bussing in between 20 and 30, thousand blacks a month, from the Eastern Cape.  Go check.  And the increase in black numbers  has never stopped since.  So, how is any city expected to cope with such a colossal increase.  The drought is not just because of the lack of rain.  It has been caused by the huge increase in the city's numbers.