Photos of the Vaal River in Vereeniging at 06h00 today 24th Oct 2019.
This is our only Vaal River. There is no substitute and it will soon be impossible to fix.
If you think no electricity is an inconvenience then wait for no water.
3 days and you’re dead.
This is a national emergency people and the useless, pathetic and uninformed politicians don’t seem to consider this an emergency.
All I can say is ‘God help us’.
The single biggest reason why residents in certain municipal regions have water shortages is the chaos in municipalities across the country, particularly those under ANC governance that do not pay their water accounts.
The Minister admitted that part of the problem is the collapse of infrastructure. It is too bad that she did not also admit that it is the ANC’s fault.
It is becoming increasingly unacceptable to blame the previous dispensation. Apartheid has nothing to do with the ANC’s fraud, corruption and sheer inability to govern. Municipalities’ outstanding debt to nine different water councils currently amounts to R14 billion. The money cannot simply be written off.
And the water that is available gets wasted or polluted. In April this year, the FF Plus lodged a criminal complaint against the manager of the Mafube Local Municipality due to the dumping of raw sewage in the Wilge River at Frankfort. The municipality’s sewage plant has
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