Questions over housing and infrastructure

Sir
Firstly, I would like to thank Mr Makhoba, the Acting Municipal Manager for Endumeni Municipality, for his courtesy in responding to my letter relating to my concerns expressed about new housing construction and the consequences regarding our apparently creaking, local infrastructure. This with particular emphasis on domestic water supply.
Sadly, Mr Makhoba has chosen to fudge the issues raised and instead respond with unhelpful rhetoric. My point was that when Thukela Water was in control of the water supply to our district, they suspended any further housing development, because the supply of domestic water was up to maximum capacity.
This ban was to continue until such time as major upgrading / updating of the system was carried out. Since then, control of water has passed to Umzimyathi Municipality and rather than improvements being carried out, the situation has seemingly deteriorated.
With our district being subject to water restrictions way ahead of the rest of South Africa, surely it is obvious to anyone that to go ahead and build the desperately needed additional housing before ensuring that the infrastructure to support it is in place, is not reckless and a recipe for disaster?
A disaster that would affect all, regardless of age, colour, wealth, gender, etc. So Mr Makhoba may quote Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 which is intended to ‘uplift communities’ etc., but this does not answer my concern – what has changed regarding the supply of water?
As for: ‘The prevalent bulk civil infrastructure challenges, including water shortage, are an unfortunate indication of our tragic discriminatory past … etc.’, oh please! What have our local municipalities been doing to correct this for over two decades? It is about time that people in authority accepted responsibility and not cast blame on the apartheid governance – a system which was consigned to history over 21 years ago!
If maintenance and upgrade has not been effectively carried out since 1994, who is at fault for that?
If housing continues to be built without first upgrading of infrastructure and this results in infrastructure failure, whose fault is that?
Norman Parkinson