A GROUP of South Coasters is so angry about last week’s water debacle, when striking Ugu employees turned off their taps, that they are considering a mass lawsuit against the district municipality.
An emailed petition is now doing the rounds with the authors requesting that local families contribute R100 to raise the R750 000 they would need to instigate a class action suit against the district municipality regarding employees ‘criminal behaviour’ that resulted in the ‘loss of human rights’.
It points out that residents had to go days without water and had to spend precious time and money to obtain it. The authors also claim that putting patients’ lives at risk by cutting hospital water supplies was nothing less that criminal conduct.
The petition objects to the municipality’s ‘lack of foresight for not being prepared for such a disaster’, claiming there had been no disaster plan in place and that the district municipality had lacked the ability to ‘safeguard water plants against criminal conduct’.
It also calls for a private investigation into Ugu’s financial affairs.
“R750 000 will enable us to take this matter further, to have this matter audited, to get the real reason behind the water disaster, to bring a civil suit and to investigate the laying of criminal charges,” the petition reads.
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