South Africa is literally being stolen and sold for scrap! In Harrismith there are no sewage works anymore. It lays stripped and looted bare, sold for scrap, leaving the town’s sewage, and blood from the abattoir, flowing into the field and then into the rivers and the Vaal Dam! Truly and demonstratively #TheAfricanWay
Harrismith, which falls under the Maluti-a-Phofung municipality (dubbed “MaLOOTi-a-Poefie”), has been without a working sewage treatment plant for months, after it has been systematically stripped and looted by scrap thieves. The looted components include the cables and electrical transformer, rendering the treatment plant 100% useless and out of order. The embattled mayor of Maluti A Phofung, Vusi Tshabalala, the Chief Whip Mmoledi Moloi and the Speaker Malewatle Nthedi were recalled back in 2018 by the ANC after the municipality, like so many others, was placed under administration . The current Executive Mayor is Cllr Masetjhaba Lakaje Mosia.
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