Opinion piece | Where is our mayor, asks Clive Hatch, Chairperson DA Emalahleni
The municipality has not honoured the DA’s invitation to hold a special council meeting to discuss the water woes in eMalahleni.
Thousands of residents in eMalahleni have been battling without water for several weeks and neither the Executive Mayor Clr Vusi Nlapho nor the members of the mayoral committee for the Technical Services Department addressed the subject.
While the citizens are suffering, nobody is accepting political responsibility.
The DA in Emalahleni is today renewing its campaign to have the water crisis in the municipality declared as a state of disaster.
CATCH CLIVE HATCH’S OVERVIEW HERE:
@witbanknews eMalahleni’s water problems are out of hand. This is what Clive Hatch, Chairperson of the DA Emalahleni has to say #Witbank #Emalahleni #water #humanrights #humanrightscampaign #CliveHatch #chairman #basicservices
The party launched the campaign earlier in the year by delivering a petition to the premier’s office, to which they did not receive the courtesy of a reply.
It is totally unacceptable that the residents of Emalahleni are entering the December festive season without any certainty of any water supply for the remainder of the year.
Declare Emalahleni’s water crisis as a State of Disaster.
##NoMoreDryTaps pic.twitter.com/kSDJcKgQ0n
— Clive Hatch (@HatchClive) December 18, 2024
This will be the third consecutive year that this has happened.
Despite the DA warning about a pending water crisis in the municipality and the SAHRC twice finding against the municipality, the officials and political leadership kept moving the furniture around on the deck of the sinking Titanic instead of taking decisive action.
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#Water #Witbanknews #emalahleni— WitbankNews (@WitbankN) June 4, 2024
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