No improvement to water supply in Ugu
In 2019, the Legislature visited the district where communities tabled their concerns, among them, water and other service delivery issues.
The chairperson of committees in the KZN Legislature, Hlengiwe Mavimbela has said that Ugu District Municipality has made little progress in improving the provision of water services to its communities.
She said that Ugu is one of the districts in the province that is struggling to provide water.
According to a report which she tabled to the people at the Ugu Sports and Leisure Centre recently, to date, some community members are still collecting water from rivers which they share with livestock.
During the visit under the banner ‘Taking Legislature to the People’ water challenges once again took a front row seat.
In 2019, the Legislature visited the district where communities tabled their concerns, among them, water and other service delivery issues.
Once again, last week, they held multi-party community meetings focusing on the levels and state of service delivery-related issues.
Oversight visits were conducted to identify projects and a fact-finding mission conducted to service delivery institutions in all four local municipalities (Ray Nkonyeni, Umzumbe, Umdoni and Umuziwabantu).
This was to track the progress of the implementation of the Development Plan.
Feedback was provided on some service delivery projects that were previously visited, which has not seen much progress.
The report also stated although Ugu is struggling, it is currently providing water via tankers.
Also, bulk water construction is underway in the KwaXolo area which will supply some 19 600 households under Ray Nkonyeni Municipality.
Mavimbela also said that Cogta reported that community members have pleaded for water and sanitation in areas that were still serviced by water tankers, and that water tankers are inconsistent.
Leader of the ACDP, Archbishop Sipho Manqele said they are unhappy with the report.
“People should be told what we have done in the past five years, as much as we are here to report. The percentage of people who are receiving water is very low and that is not good.”
Speaker of the KZN legislature Nontombeko Boyce said it was a public participation process to ask people how they feel about the infrastructure and the service delivery brought by government.
“Most people get confused and think that we are here to deliver services but that is not exactly what we are doing, instead we are looking at the impact of what has been done by the government.”
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