Following the cholera outbreak, the city needs to comply with the public protector’s orders.
Newly appointed Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka has ordered the City of Tshwane to come up with a proper plan to fix the water challenges in Hammanskraal, north of Tshwane, in the next 60 days.
The spotlight on the cholera outbreak has dissipated, but the lives of many residents continue to be abnormal, as they are now forced to live without clean drinking water and carry the financial burden of buying purified water to survive. Some residents said they have to pay R40 for 10 litres of purified water every two days, which they use for cooking and washing.
Also, some residents are still reluctant to drink the municipal water, whether in the taps or trucked in, as they believe it was water supplied by the city which was the cause of the cholera outbreak, despite no conclusive evidence this was the case.The city has committed a budget of R450 million over the next three years for the upgrade and refurbishment of the Rooiwal wastewater treatment works, which is the main source of Hammanskraal’s water problem.
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