People and businesses in Sterkstroom in the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality have been without electricity for 17 days.
The applicants want the municipality to hand over information related to the tender process, including the register for the closing of the tender, minutes of the bid evaluation and adjudication or award committees, the tender documents, a copy of the service level agreement entered into between the municipality and Makali Plant and Construction., which would include copies of the engineers’ report, drawings and business plan for the project.
“From a business perspective, what will happen when Eskom decides to switch off Enoch Mgijima municipality? If the municipality is not doing its job as far as the reticulation of electricity is concerned, then why don’t we just buy electricity straight from Eskom?” said Clark. “In Komani, the residents of Westbourne and Mlungisi are exposed to sewage which flows into the Komani River alongside them. Some residents have to cross this river in order to get to their places of work.”
Chris Hani District Municipality spokesperson Bulelwa Ganyaza blamed the sewage problem on theft and vandalism of council infrastructure. Komani resident Axolile Masiza agreed that refuse was not collected in Komani, and residents were now dumping it everywhere. “The smoke from the site comes into our houses and we breathe the polluted air every day. I am an asthmatic person and the smoke affects me badly,” he said.
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