Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu has sent technical teams to work with the City of Tshwane and the health department in response to the cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria.
that tempers flared outside the Jubilee District Hospital in Hammanskraal as angry residents chased Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink away on Monday. The City of Tshwane, meanwhile, has urged people in Hammanskraal and surrounding areas “not to use water from taps for drinking purposes”.
The technical team will extend the intensive assessment of the various water supply systems from Magalies and Rand water boards to confirm the drinking quality. The department said it had recently confirmed that the dual water systems supplied by Magalies Water and Rand Water meet the drinking water quality standards, as per the South African National Standards 241.
“After the city failed to respond to the department’s directives, a legal process was instituted against the city by the department, with the aim of obtaining a court order to force the city to address the failure of the Rooiwal …. This legal process is currently underway and to date, the city has opposed the legal action.”
“Consequently, the department is pursuing legal action against the city for a court order to force the City to use its USDG allocations to rehabilitate and upgrade Rooiwal.”The city said that although the water it supplies in Hammanskraal is “not potable”, it uses 52 water tankers to provide drinkable water to informal settlements three times a week and 40 water trucks to formal areas daily in Region 2. “This is done to ensure that communities have safe drinking water.
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