First villages get water
The executive mayor of the Mopani District Municipality, Pule Shayi, visited Bambeni village in ward 24 on Friday, October 14, which is one of the 24 villages to benefit from the first phase as water reticulation to households of the Giyani Water Project started.
He met with stakeholders including traditional leaders, civic organisations, business forums, and school governing bodies. He implored stakeholders to ensure that there is buy-in from everyone in the community during project implementation, saying this will ensure the project is completed within the set timeframe. He was accompanied by the speaker, Martha Maswanganyi, the MMC for infrastructure development, Masilo Maloko, and Thamsanqa Mabunda, a member of the executive committee responsible for technical services in the Greater Giyani Municipality.
“The objective is to proactively inform and share with residents information about the reticulation project that is coming to the community. But it is also to get buy-in from them so they take ownership to ensure that we meet the target dates. It is also about forging partnerships to ensure that the project implementation is not disrupted in one way or another,” the mayor said. The minister of water and sanitation, Senzo Mchunu on his last visit to the Giyani Water Project stated that there was little work to be done in order for the project to be finished.
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“What we saw during our site visits, represents a great deal of progress in terms of the work we are doing here in Giyani to get water to the residents. We are closing a trench between the Nsami Dam and the river from which we are extracting water. It is through this canal that water from Nandoni will pass into the Nsami Dam,” said Mchunu during his visit.
