Municipalities fail to meet deadline
About 17,000 residents have been without clean water since January
WAITING:
People stand in queues for water in Silobela township in Carolina, Mpumalanga.
PHOTO: MABUTI KALI
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RESIDENTS of Carolina in Mpumalanga were still without clean water, four days after a court ordered two municipalities to attend to the residents' woes.
The Gert Sibande and Albert Luthuli municipalities defied a North Gauteng High Court court order to provide each person with 25 litres of drinkable water within 72 hours, a time-frame that lapsed yesterday.
About 17,000 residents have been without clean water since January.
Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Centre, the two organisations representing the desperate residents, told Sowetan that residents had not been engaged since the court's decision to dismiss an appeal by the municipalities last week.
Anjuli Maistry of Lawyers for Human Rights said: "We are hopeful that the municipalities will take steps to comply with the order, in particular the immediate supply of temporary water and active engagement with the residents so that further proceedings will not be necessary. We have made proposals to the municipalities and we are waiting."
The municipalities were taken to court last month by residents claiming that the water provided to them was not suitable for human consumption.
They said their water has been polluted since January, allegedly by acid mine drainage.
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Chabella
Shocking that people need to take a municipality to court to get them to supply them with drink water !! But I suppose what do you expect from an ANC municpality, they know they they will be voted in no matter what they do.I bet the ANC mayor and councilers drive around in a big fancy BMW/Mercs. And I bet they have clean water at their houses.
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Shredder
I hope sinudeity does not see this articleReport Abuse
Chabella
This is were 93.5% of people voted for the ANC on April 2012. when are we going to learn not vote based on sentiment but rather by ability to deliver. Surely asking for drinking water isn't to much !!Report Abuse
pacific
They voted the ANC. Let them live with it. Let them continue to vote for them and forever hold your peace.Report Abuse
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Chabella, I fell sorry for the 6.5% who did not vote for these incompetent thieves, the poor people who wanted change and they must still sit with this.It is heartbreaking driving around mahush and mkhuhlu to see kids with wheelbarrows walking kilometers for drinking water, but their parents will vote for the incompetent anc.
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Sinudeity_
Shredder - Hehehe.Why are the ANCYL not threatening to make the province ungovernable? :P
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Sinudeity,because most of the people living there is anc/ancyl and are more than comfortable with these conditions, they would say that it is only a few un-thankful people complaining,
"these people are talking nonsense, the water she is clean" "cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough"
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Mwelase
Yesterday Prophet Credo warned that Mzansi i going to Burn( meaning iyasha i Azania) keep voting anc maqabane nizofa yindlala and udlame.Report Abuse
Mellow
Its just sad they vote for them so they can suffer like this haai shem I feel for those who didnt vote for this useless party and they shall continue to sufferReport Abuse
Mbeki_2
It never fails to amaze me that these voters just CANNOT seem to learn from the past 18 years of GETTING NOTHING except the right to vote! This is what emotional voting gets you.Report Abuse
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