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Water alert Alet van der Walt HOURS after the water to the Mathjabeng municipal area was reduced to a mere trickle, the council continued to insist that the water crisis was due to large-scale maintenance being done. Yet Monday (24/08) at 12:00 Sedibeng Water had already confirmed to Vista that the water flow to the Goldfields was reduced due to non-payment by the city council. However, hours later the Mathjabeng Muncipality still told the Goldfields Chamber of Business that the council was doing maintenance work and there was no payment-related problem. Vista already received confidential information on a possible water cut last week, but couldn’t confirm it. Neither ANC, DA, Cope nor FF+ councillors were aware of the looming crisis and it seems even senior municipal employees were kept in the dark. Monday Sedibeng Water’s marketing manager, Alfred Theys, confirmed that the company had reduced the water flow to the Matjhabeng Municipality. He said it had been done as the company could no longer afford to supply “free
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water” to the municipality. It follows after numerous unfulfilled promises were made, he said. He said the flow was restricted and not cut. He did admit, however, that this could result in certain areas and even towns not having any water at all. Monday afternoon people were queuing at water shops across the Goldfields with bottles and other empty containers to buy water for cooking. By late Monday night the water supply to most of the towns was restored and the municipality said the crisis was over. On Tuesday morning (25/08) it came to light that Sedibeng Water had still not received payment or even a payment agreement, and that the company said it would continue to reduce the water flow to only 20%. An urgent council meeting was convened on Tuesday and an assurance was given that Sedibeng Water would not cut or reduce the water flow again before next Monday. The DA in Matjhabeng will apply for an urgent court interdict on Thursday (27/08) to prevent Sedibeng Water from cutting the water.
TWEE jong mans is Vrydagaand (21/08) beseer toe hul motorfiets naby die Goudveld-Hoërskool teen ’n motor gebots het. Verkeer is vir lank ontwrig aangesien die jaarlikse Mediclinic Welkom-wedloop aan die gang was en verskeie roetes in die omgewing vir die wedloop gesluit was. Foto: Alet van der Walt
Mismanagement a crisis Alet van der Walt
THE Free State Goldfields (FGF) Chamber of Business has already taken steps to bring an end to the mismanagement and implosion of services which has become the fate of Goldfielders over the past two decades. During an executive council meeting of the FGF Chamber of Business, which was held on 20 August before the water cut, it was decided that municipal mismanagement had already reached levels where it could not be rehabilitated internally. Debt to Sedibeng Water and Eskom
amounts to billions of rands. There is also a looming sewerage tragedy with the rain season around the corner. The Goldfields Chamber of Business, through its two parent organisations X the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (AHI) and the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) X has requested an urgent meeting with the legal department of the National Treasury. Schalk van der Merwe, president of the FGF Chamber of Business, confirmed to Vista that the two umbrella organisations, which represent 80% of organised business
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