As city residents endure another water shutdown, the Sol Plaatje Municipality has yet to provide councillors with a report on the work carried out during the last scheduled shutdown in May 2022.
AS CITY residents endure another water shutdown, the Sol Plaatje Municipality has yet to provide councillors with a report on the work carried out during the last scheduled shutdown in May 2022.
According to the DA, they are also getting no feedback on the costs involved. This is despite the use of contractors in May and a specialist consultant appointed to assist in an advisory capacity with the weekend’s shutdown.
“The lack of transparency in respect of the city’s water infrastructure maintenance plan is of growing concern, given that no councillors have been made privy to it,” the DA said in a statement.
“Given the endless water interruptions, nightly water shutdowns and additional 24-hour emergency water shutdowns on the 10th and 27th of September, Sol Plaatje cannot expect us, or the residents of Kimberley, to simply accept on face value that progress is being made in respect of water infrastructure repairs.”
The party questioned the effectiveness of the shutdowns and whether they are in fact worth the suffering that residents are increasingly being subjected to.
Sol Plaatje’s water issues first arose in 2008 when a moratorium was placed on development to due to bulk infrastructure limitations.
