Tshwane mayor under fire for suspending officials amidst Rooiwal tender controversy; Hammanskraal residents await resolution of water crisis.
The ANC in Tshwane has accused the city’s mayor, Cilliers Brink, of being on a witch-hunt after suspending five senior officials over the failed Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Works. The cause of the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, in May last year, that claimed 23 lives was still unknown nearly a year later.
Matjila said the ANC was shocked Brink wanted to decide his own process to the Labour Court for review and viewed it as a distrust of the city’s internal disciplinary processes. “When you fix wrongdoing in the city, there will always be people who rally politicians to their cause. I saw that when the previous mayor tried to act against the GladAfrica Group findings and he was threatened with a motion of no confidence,” he said.A Hammanskraal farmer, Theunis Vogel, said he has seen everyone come to visit Rooiwal and promise to fix the area but go without doing anything.Vogel has been complaining about the bad quality of water in the area for the past 20 years.
Vogel said the sewerage has been running into the Apies River for the past four years, while promises were made to upgrade the waste water system.
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