Thousands of households in water-stressed areas of the Eastern Cape are set to benefit from a water provisioning initiative by the Amatola Water Board. The programme will benefit 120,000 households a day who live in rural parts of the province. In a bid to ensure water security in rural areas, the state-owned water utility is appointing service providers to supply, deliver and install 600 rainwater tanks to the Eastern Cape’s six kingdom palaces.
The changing of the car to a low gear to enable its wheels to gain traction is not in and of itself a bad move. The real question is whether the road beyond this point is smooth enough to enable the car to accelerate and avoid getting caught in the mud again. Neither the president nor the ANC m.
After Eskom’s initial refusal to exempt the Churchill Dam from rolling blackouts caused extensive water outages in the water-stressed Nelson Mandela Bay metro, Mayor Retief Odendaal announced on Thursday morning that the metro had managed to get the dam exempted.
Former Amatola Water Board CEO Vuyo Zitumane said she felt vindicated after the National Prosecuting Authority declined to prosecute her. The Special Investigating Unit recommended last year that Zitumane and other current and former officials from the water board be criminally prosecuted for allegedly flouting procurement processes relating to Covid-19 related contracts.