The municipality has been accused of deliberately derailing the contract to sort out toxic water crisis in Hammanskraal
The tender to fix the wastewater treatment plant at the heart of the Hammanskraal water crisis has hit yet another snag.
The refurbishments of Rooiwal are long overdue. The water crisis in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, has spanned almost a decade. After a site visit to Rooiwal earlier this month, chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on human settlements, water and sanitation, ANC MP Machwene Semenya, called the “snail’s pace” of the City of Tshwane’s intervention “unacceptable”.
“While we welcome the fact that the City of Tshwane acted swiftly to cancel a contract with a contractor that is unable to deliver on work to limit substandard work, it is concerning that the bid evaluation committee was unable to detect deficiencies at evaluation stage,” the statement reads. But to date the City has not appointed an engineer “with the result that the actual construction work on site cannot commence”, Schoeman’s affidavit reads.At the end of January this year, the City of Tshwane’s group head of utility services Stephens Notoane alerted the joint venture of its intention to terminate the contract. The letter, contained in court papers, cites the joint venture’s failure to register as a vendor as the reason for the termination.
Schoeman further contends that it has “become clear that there are sinister forces operating behind the scenes, which clearly have the aim of derailing the implementation of the contract awarded to the JV”.
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