Residents there have complained of water infrastructure being deliberately sabotaged in order for the metro to continue hiring water tankers.
JOHANNESBURG - Tshwane executive mayor Cilliers Brink has committed that the city is looking into allegations of a water tanker mafia operating in the cholera-hit area of Hammanskraal.
This comes amid a deadly cholera outbreak in the Pretoria North neighbourhood where 24 people have died from the waterborne disease.- Cholera outbreak: Hammanskraal residents urged not to buy, drink untested water- Source of cholera outbreak could be water tanker distributors – Expert- Malaika Mahlatsi: Hammanskraal a case study in being failed by governmentBrink said that the city had not received concrete evidence of a water tanker mafia.
“If we fix Rooiwal, and if we make sure that water is supplied through our infrastructure, the water tanker business is going to lose a lot of money. In fact, large parts of that business will in fact go out of business and so you can imagine there is a vested interest.”
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