23rd February 2021
In a highly unusual development, the Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) has asked its own employees to pay their water bills as well as encourage their “relatives, neighbours and close associates” to do the same in order to keep the Corporation afloat.
“This is our organisation and it is in our interest to see it thrive and be ‘a leading water service provider by 2022’ as captured in our strategy,” says WUC’s Chief Executive Officer, Gaselemogwe Senai, in an internal memorandum to all staff members.
Ordinarily, there would be no need for the Corporation to stay afloat by appealing to staff members as well to as to ask them to encourage their relatives, neighbours and close associates to pay their water bills but these are extraordinary times. As part of national effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus, it is important that customers have adequate water supply to carry out effective hygiene practices. It was on the basis of the latter that President Mokgweetsi Masisi – like most leaders around the world – imposed a water disconnection moratorium.