That drip, drip, drip you hear is the sound of an entirely new class of bureaucrats shifting the blame for their own failings.
The latest instalment in the Olympic sport that is SA governmental buck-passing is Rand Water’s assertion that inconsiderate consumers are to blame for the water outages now crippling SA’s economic hub, Gauteng. The company, which is responsible for the distribution of water in the province, has shaken off a stultifying torpor in its efforts to explain itself.against a world average of 173. Except this is bunkum.
You may ask, as the FM has done, why Eskom can’t simply isolate critical water provision infrastructure to ensure continuity of supply when the powers that be at the woefully named Megawatt Park flick the switch on SA’s electricity. After all, the lights are always on at, say, the Union Buildings. Of course, that would imply a certain level of forward thinking — not to mention actual public service provision. It would also require some kind of maintenance of municipalities’ ageing, and now rapidly deteriorating, infrastructure. Sadly, both of these are as vanishingly rare as a minister stumping up for services .
Don’t look to national government for too much help either. Rand Water and Joburg Water “are part of the public sector and need to be held accountable by the department of water & sanitation”, the University of Johannesburg’s Prof Mary Galvin told News24.
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