On Wednesday, 10 April 2024, ActionSA noted with caution the visit by the Minister of Water and Sanitation and his team in a bid to fast-track the longstanding Hammanskraal water issue. He will be visiting the Rooiwal Wastewater Works today and attending a sod-turning event for the Klipdrift Package Plant.
The people of Hammanskraal have, for over 18 years, suffered from not being supplied with drinkable and usable water with no help in sight. ActionSA has, from our arrival in Tshwane, advocated for the people of Hammanskraal and their dire need for potable drinking water, a matter which the ruling party had almost 20 years to correct but did not, leading many to even speculate if the cholera outbreak of 2023 could be attributed thereto, although this was refuted.
From the beginning of this administration, as ActionSA, we conducted an independent forensic study that revealed scathing findings about the state of the water. We submitted this report to the then Mayor, Randall Williams, who ignored it and ultimately pursued the matter through the SIU, which instituted a forensic investigation against officials and politicians who may have flouted process in the appointment of a contractor. This led to Edwin Sodi’s companies, which had by then earned R71 million from the City, doing nothing to finally vacate the site, making way for what we see happening today.
It was the ActionSA Tshwane Caucus that spearheaded this and forced political will to source and disburse funds to the tune of R450 million over 3 years to ensure the provision of clean, potable water for the people of Hammanskraal.
For these reasons, ActionSA will continue to closely monitor this process to ensure that we prevent a repeat of the characteristic appointment of incompetent companies, or “tenders for buddies,” because they are friends with ministers and top politicians yet lacking in knowhow, capacity, and financial muscle to undertake such projects, as is the trademark and historical tendency of the erstwhile liberation movement.
ActionSA believes that in restoring the dignity of our fellow residents, we need to pursue social justice as a component of rebuilding the social construct of Tshwane as a city that excels in the provision of basic service delivery and so much more drinkable water as a basic constitutional imperative.
ActionSA Tshwane Cautiously Welcomes Water Minister to Hammanskraal
On Wednesday, 10 April 2024, ActionSA noted with caution the visit by the Minister of Water and Sanitation and his team in a bid to fast-track the longstanding Hammanskraal water issue. He will be visiting the Rooiwal Wastewater Works today and attending a sod-turning event for the Klipdrift Package Plant.
The people of Hammanskraal have, for over 18 years, suffered from not being supplied with drinkable and usable water with no help in sight. ActionSA has, from our arrival in Tshwane, advocated for the people of Hammanskraal and their dire need for potable drinking water, a matter which the ruling party had almost 20 years to correct but did not, leading many to even speculate if the cholera outbreak of 2023 could be attributed thereto, although this was refuted.
From the beginning of this administration, as ActionSA, we conducted an independent forensic study that revealed scathing findings about the state of the water. We submitted this report to the then Mayor, Randall Williams, who ignored it and ultimately pursued the matter through the SIU, which instituted a forensic investigation against officials and politicians who may have flouted process in the appointment of a contractor. This led to Edwin Sodi’s companies, which had by then earned R71 million from the City, doing nothing to finally vacate the site, making way for what we see happening today.
It was the ActionSA Tshwane Caucus that spearheaded this and forced political will to source and disburse funds to the tune of R450 million over 3 years to ensure the provision of clean, potable water for the people of Hammanskraal.
For these reasons, ActionSA will continue to closely monitor this process to ensure that we prevent a repeat of the characteristic appointment of incompetent companies, or “tenders for buddies,” because they are friends with ministers and top politicians yet lacking in knowhow, capacity, and financial muscle to undertake such projects, as is the trademark and historical tendency of the erstwhile liberation movement.
ActionSA believes that in restoring the dignity of our fellow residents, we need to pursue social justice as a component of rebuilding the social construct of Tshwane as a city that excels in the provision of basic service delivery and so much more drinkable water as a basic constitutional imperative.