FF Plus Gauteng draws the line with Emfuleni
8 August 2018
The FF Plus will send a petition to the national Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Dr Zweli Mkhize, as well as the Minister of Waterworks and Sanitation, Mr Gugile Nkwinti, to immediately intervene in the critical situation at the Emfuleni Local Municipality.
The Emfuleni municipal region, which includes Vereeniging, Three Rivers, Vanderbijlpark, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis.
Over time, the poor management by the ANC-controlled Emfuleni city council has led to the collapse of service delivery in the municipal region. The city council is already in arrears with hundreds of millions of rands owed to basic service providers like Eskom and Rand Water and consequently, residents and businesses increasingly have to make do without water and electricity.
There are large volumes of raw sewage at various sites and some of it ends up in drainage channels, in streams and ultimately in the Vaal River because sewage pump stations were not maintained by the city council and as a result, an environmental disaster is now inevitable.