‘Shape up or ship out’ SCOPA tells Makana leadership
Parliament had Makhanda’s long-running water crisis and Makana’s management practices in its sights during an oversight visit to the municipality this week. Makana was one of five Eastern Cape municipalities Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) visited last week.
In a day of relentless questioning, MPs shredded officials from Makana, Amatola Water and the Department of Water and Sanitation. And as if to test the Committee’s assertion that nothing would stand in their way, a deafening thunderstorm exploding midway through the harrowing four-hour probe merely had chairperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa advising those asking and answering questions to “use your rally voice”.