ActionSA does not believe meditation will resolve eThekwini sewerage crisis
27 February 2023
ActionSA is not confident that mediation between the applicants and the various respondents in our court case against the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality and the Minister of Tourism inter alia, would resolve in a successful resolution of the ongoing sewerage crisis in eThekwini. To the contrary, we are of the view that it is a delaying tactic for the state to avoid accountability.
Three respondents in our court case, the eThekwini Municipality, City eThekwini Mayor, Mxolisi Kaunda, and Tourism Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu, failed to file answering affidavits, but on Monday morning asked the KwaZulu-Natal High Court to refer the matter for mediation to resolve the ongoing dispute with the metropolitan.
To this end our Minister of Tourism, Ms Sisulu, is more concerned with footballs games in the United Kingdom than she is about her own citizens in eThekwini. Nothing she has suggested would alleviate the suffering of people in KwaZulu-Natal. Rather, she serves to benefit wealthy football teams in the United Kingdom, who she ironically slams as colonialists.
The court postponed proceedings to 3 April 2023 for the respondents to file answering affidavits, and should they fail to file their papers, ActionSA will apply for a preferential date, and the matter will be heard on the opposed date.