Clewer residents need water
DA gets involved as the residents and businesses in Clewer are in need of water
DA Member of Parliament Henro Kruger together with Mr Clive Hatch, the DA Emalahleni Chairperson paid a visit to Clewer.
On Wednesday, February 17 the visit took place following the concerns raised by residents in the suburb about severe water shortages.
Mr Chris Vermaak, DA Chairperson in Clewer took them to see the light industrial area and the smallholdings that have hardly had any water for the past two months.
A businessperson expressed concern that unless potable water is provided consistently to the area, the businesses may be forced to close increasing the number of unemployed people.
Currently, of equal concern is the raw sewerage running in the streams of the suburb. The chances of catching cholera or other water-borne diseases are inevitable with the children playing and livestock grazing alongside the polluted water.
“It is an absolute disgrace that an entire community has to suffer because of an incompetent municipality. It is unacceptable that during a pandemic as serious as the Covid-19 pandemic, residents do not even have water to wash their hands,” Kruger said.
Also read the story in WITBANK NEWS, Friday, February 26
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