Emergency arrangements are as follows:
1. All waste water treatment facilities and water purification plants operational.
2. Emergency contractor in place to attend to pipe bursts. However, will be a delayed response due to workload.
3. Sewer overflows at this stage a problem and contractors to be secured.
4. Electricity outages teams in place but at lower capacity. Response times may be longer.
5. Waste removal will continue this weekend.
6. Security in place at substations and key points.
7. Functions booked at civic centre will continue.
8. Electricity re-connections: if payments have been made contact via this site on inbox with address and account number.
9. Account inquiries and other financial matters, should resume as normal on Monday.
10. Licencing offices: should open on Monday as normal.
1. To confirm security arrangements have been put into place and the licencing offices as well as the rates hall will be open for business as usual in Monday.
2. However, there are still a possibility of protest actions during the day. We will do everything possible to protect the public and our staff who are trying to deliver their services to you. The SAPS is also involved in the arrangements we made.
3. I understand that some people’s vehicles were damaged during the actions on Friday. Where you gave suffered damages please be in contact with my office with the details.
4. Those of you who took photos of the actions, specifically showing people busy with acts of vandalism or damaging of property, please contact me as soon as possible. You can use my email or inbox me here.
5. Let me assure the public of eMalahleni and the members of staff who are committed to executing their work and follow the correct procedures to bring grievances to our attention in a constructive manner, that the events of the past few days were the turning point in the attempts to restore discipline in our service delivery teams. There is and a responsibility with each of us to honour the principles of our constitution and to show respect to our communities, authority and ourselves. I always have preferred the path of reconciliation and engagement.
This softer and accommodating approach seems not to be the answer anymore. I have no option now to do the right thing with whatever means possible within the ambit of the law. There will be consequences for what have happened and there will be for what still may be planned. This municipality has failed due to many reasons and what is happening now is again confirming one of the main causes for the poor situation we are finding ourselves in. Enough is enough now.
Water to the Clewer area has been restore. A big thanks to Ben and his teams. They are now at Duvha to resolve the problem which left parts there without water for a number of days. The broken fire hydrants also have been repaired.
Waste removal are continuing this weekend to catch up. I hope that they will cover the whole area. On Monday we will assess the situation again.
Electricity outages are being attended to. Please continue to report problems as they may occur.
