ActionSA has noted with concern, the dire situation of having no water by the communities in Ephraim Mogale Municipality. The communities have long endured the incompetence and unwillingness by the District Municipality of Sekhukhune to resolve this matter.
Despite several High Court and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) orders to the district to provide water to the people of Elandskraal, Morarela, Mbuzini, Tsantsabela and Dichoewung in particular, nothing happened. The district continues to defy the orders with impunity.
As ActionSA it is our firm belief that the lack of political will by the government of the ANC to provide our people with the basic right, purely stems from the need to profit from this crisis. The Flag Boshielo Water Plant has the capacity to provide these villages with water on a daily basis however nothing is done to relieve these poor communities. The belief that the intentional disruption of the supply is to further their corruption agenda with provision of water tank tenders is not ill-founded.
ActionSA fully supports the legal battle that stretched for almost a decade and half by the communities against the government. We also call on the government to uphold the rule of law by ensuring that decision by the High Court and NCOP are being implemented as soon as possible.
ActionSA therefore demands that:
– National Parliament speeds up the process to find solution on water crisis in Sekhukhune.
– The local government of Ephraim Mogale, including all municipalities, be issued with water rights licences so as to allow the municipality to provide its citizens with water and jobs that goes with that provision. As one of our cardinal pillars in our policy, we believe that government functions, particularly relating to service delivery, should be decentralised, and delegated to effective and competent provincial and local governments that are closer to the people that they serve.
– The district municipality stop issuing bills to the resident as there is no water.
– The tank tendering should be investigated and beneficiaries to tenders be publicly named.
– We call on all affected communities to raise their voices of disapproval to these crises and take steps to force the government to provide that essential and basic right.
As entrenched in our ActionSA policy offering, we will not rest in holding state institutions accountable. We believe strengthening our institutions is the first step in ensuring that we can achieve our policy agenda and create the environment required for improving the socio-economic conditions of our people.
ActionSA Concerned About Looming Water Crisis in Flag Boshielo West
ActionSA has noted with concern, the dire situation of having no water by the communities in Ephraim Mogale Municipality. The communities have long endured the incompetence and unwillingness by the District Municipality of Sekhukhune to resolve this matter.
Despite several High Court and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) orders to the district to provide water to the people of Elandskraal, Morarela, Mbuzini, Tsantsabela and Dichoewung in particular, nothing happened. The district continues to defy the orders with impunity.
As ActionSA it is our firm belief that the lack of political will by the government of the ANC to provide our people with the basic right, purely stems from the need to profit from this crisis. The Flag Boshielo Water Plant has the capacity to provide these villages with water on a daily basis however nothing is done to relieve these poor communities. The belief that the intentional disruption of the supply is to further their corruption agenda with provision of water tank tenders is not ill-founded.
ActionSA fully supports the legal battle that stretched for almost a decade and half by the communities against the government. We also call on the government to uphold the rule of law by ensuring that decision by the High Court and NCOP are being implemented as soon as possible.
ActionSA therefore demands that:
– National Parliament speeds up the process to find solution on water crisis in Sekhukhune.
– The local government of Ephraim Mogale, including all municipalities, be issued with water rights licences so as to allow the municipality to provide its citizens with water and jobs that goes with that provision. As one of our cardinal pillars in our policy, we believe that government functions, particularly relating to service delivery, should be decentralised, and delegated to effective and competent provincial and local governments that are closer to the people that they serve.
– The district municipality stop issuing bills to the resident as there is no water.
– The tank tendering should be investigated and beneficiaries to tenders be publicly named.
– We call on all affected communities to raise their voices of disapproval to these crises and take steps to force the government to provide that essential and basic right.
As entrenched in our ActionSA policy offering, we will not rest in holding state institutions accountable. We believe strengthening our institutions is the first step in ensuring that we can achieve our policy agenda and create the environment required for improving the socio-economic conditions of our people.