EFF Gauteng structures and public representatives to conduct oversight visits to water reservoirs and purification plants across the province amid the rising cholera cases
28 May 2023
The Economic Freedom Fighters Gauteng directs all its structures and public representatives to conduct oversight visits to water reservoirs and purification plants amid the rising cholera cases and the death across the province. These oversight visits will take place between Monday the 29" Of May 2023 and Thursday the 1st Of June 2023.
This is a precautionary step to ensure that these water purification and storage facilities are in good condition to provide clean and healthy water for human consumption. It is also one of the means to hold the executive at provincial and municipal levels accountable.
The cases of people treated with gastrointestinal infection continue to increase, with over 74 people now admitted at Jubilee District Hospital and other hospitals around Tshwane, the death toll has risen to 24, and up to this point, the City of Tshwane and the Department of Water and Sanitation have not been able to ascertain the source of the bacteria.
While this raises more questions about the preparedness of both the DA in Tshwane and the ANC government in the province to deal with this situation, this costly confusion has been worsened by the DA government's intention to avoid accountability. The lab test results which suggest that there is no cholera in the running tap water and water tankers are also questionable because they are sanctioned by the very same DA that refuses to take responsibility.