The NGO says it was screwed over to the tune of millions, while the water department and municipality appear to have officially washed its hands of responsibility.
The Makana Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape said on Thursday that Gift of the Givers had undertaken to do work entirely “on risk” in water scarce Makhanda.
The municipality said that work undertaken by Gift of the Givers was done without thorough and rigorous due diligence that the municipality required of an outside contractor. Ratau expressed concern at “misinformation” that the department of water and sanitation had not given support to the Gift of the Givers in their support relief efforts.
Fifteen boreholes were drilled, water was tested, and filtration systems were designed. In addition, Gift of the Givers delivered water to communities by bottled water and water trucks. At this point, they were spending millions, but were essentially working for free, they said. “This is R10 million of taxpayers’ money handed out freely by the government to people as remuneration for work that Gift of the Givers did,” alleged Sooliman.
Ratau seemed to wash his hands of the details, saying their job had been only to provide the money, and how that was disbursed was not their problem.
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