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NW municipality set to take action following Mkhwebane’s report

───   KATLEHO MORAPELA 16:33 Wed, 29 Jan 2020

NW municipality set to take action following Mkhwebane’s report | News Article

The North West’s Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality has 15 working days to respond to Public Protector, Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s damning report.


This, after Mkhwebane on Tuesday released an investigative report indicating the municipality’s failure to provide residents with sustainable water supply. 

Mkhwebane has in her report said this municipality has for years failed to ensure that water service equipment are regularly maintained and that old infrastructure is refurbished, leaving communities to suffer. 

She said residents in the district’s five local municipalities have not enjoyed access to clean, adequate water due to the municipality’s conduct. 

In response to these challenges, Mkhwebane has directed the Municipal Manager of the cash-strapped municipality and MEC for Local Governance to submit an implementation plan indicating when and how her remedial actions will be implemented.

Failure to prepare water service development plans from 2012 to date, lack of infrastructure maintenance, poor management of water infrastructure and incomplete projects are amongst some of the issues she found against the municipality.

Mkhwebane’s remedial actions include that the municipality completes all incomplete water projects, dig new boreholes and maintain the ones that have been left dilapidated, as well as ensuring that the construction of reservoir projects reach completion, amongst others.

Following her report, the Municipal Manager must also ensure that reports on the progress made with respect to the implementation of remedial actions are submitted quarterly.

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