In certain areas of the rural Eastern Cape, however, thousands of residents are forced to make impossible decisions each day.
Due to a lack of adequate water infrastructure, many residents in rural communities in the Eastern Cape still depend on rivers and other open water sources for their water needs. Picture: Black Star/Spotlight In a province where many people depend on grants to get by, having to spend grant money on sanitiser forces difficult trade-offs.The Eastern Cape Socioeconomic Consultative Council – an institution founded to forge meaningful partnership between government, business, labour and the non-profit organisation sector to address underdevelopment and poverty in the province – pegged the unemployment rate for the OR Tambo district at 35.5% in 2016.“We don’t have roads, we don’t have water.
In one village, which residents call Phantsi kweMission, they pay between R800 and R1 000 for a bakkie to fetch water for them. During the committee meeting, DA MP Cilliers Brink called the situation at the municipality “a non-stop train crash of poor decisions and governance” because of its inability to curb water losses, poor revenue collection and deteriorating supply chain management processes that have cost millions in irregular expenditure over the years.
“There are no standard procedures to assess the condition [of infrastructure]. The municipality is a water services provider, but it doesn’t have the capacity to investigate and maintain the infrastructure. “In simple language, tell us what is it that you are doing to make the district a better place. People are drinking water with animals,” she charged.
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