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Illegal bypasses and defaulters were taken to task during Tuesday’s (06/02) Operation Patala in Welkom.
Members of the Matjhabeng cut-off team investigating an illegal bypass in Alma Road.
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At Manny’s Shopping Complex, a businessman was using his neighbours’ supply. Photos: Kgojane Matutle
No mercy for defaulters Municipality intensifies Operation Patala to avoid water cutoff Marti Will mwill@volksblad.com
The Matjhabeng Local Municipality is leaving no stone unturned in its pursuit of avoiding a looming cut off of its water supply by Sedibeng Water. Sedibeng has issued a notice to the municipality to cut off the defaulting municipality if it does not honour its payment agreement with them. “Matjhabeng has a water debt of over a billion rand with Sedibeng Water,” says Thabiso Tsoaeli, municipal manager. “To service this debt, residents have to pay for their billed monthly consumption. But residents are not paying their service accounts. Over 60% of consumers do not pay, leaving Matjhabeng with this debt.” To avoid being cut off, the municipality has intensified Operation Patala. On Tuesday (06/02), Phase 3 of Operation Patala was implemented. This effects the complete removal of services to defaulting households. “The leadership of the municipality is on the ground overseeing the cut-offs to ensure that there is no stone left unturned,” says Tsoaeli.
During Operation Patala on Tuesday (06/02), illegal bypasses and consumer defaulters were targeted.
Mojabeng Radebe, acting executive mayor, and Vicky Morris, MMC for Public Safety, are part of the monitoring team. Several bypasses were found during Tuesday’s operation in the Welkom
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industrial area. They discovered that at one of the business premises in Alma Road, the owner (who owes Matjhabeng R1,9 million) had bypassed the municipal electricity box to the street light,
enabling his business to get electricity for free. “At Manny’s Shopping Complex, where the municipality had previously cut off the electricity supply to a business, the cut-off team discovered that the power was still on. The businessman had bypassed his power supply to use the supply of the other businesses around him. He was using their power and not paying for electricity. They were in effect subsidising his electricity usage,” says Kgojane Matutle, municipal spokesperson. “The municipality will institute civil and criminal charges against businesses and residents who are stealing electricity and water,” says Matutle. Radebe says the operation will continue throughout the year, even on weekends. “Paying consumers cannot suffer because of criminals who steal from them. I want to send a strong message to those non-payers that we are coming for them,” she says. “The Matjhabeng Local Municipality has a constitutional mandate to render basic services, but defaulters are making it difficult for us to achieve that,” says Radebe.
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