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ActionSA has always said that what South Africa needs, at different levels of government, are competent, appropriately qualified and experienced, as well as ethical leaders who place the interests of citizens and residents ahead of all else. This is what the party pushed for in the Tshwane Metro, and what it finally managed to achieve through the appointment of game-changing Executive Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya, and the multiparty Mayoral Committee that she leads.

Tshwane’s announcement, earlier today, that Hammanskraal residents can now safely drink the water provided by Phase 1 of the Klipdrift Wastewater Treatment Plant emergency intervention project, is a significant milestone for the community. The project – a joint venture between Magalies Water, the National Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) and the City of Tshwane – will ensure the availability of clean, drinkable water to residents of Marokolong, Ramotse, Kekana Gardens, Babelegi Industrial, and Mandela Village. Future phases of the project will expand this to more communities in Hammanskraal.

“I’m personally touched by this achievement. It is an emotional one for me because I grew up in Hammanskraal”, related Herman Mashaba, President of ActionSA. “It has been hard for me to observe failures by successive governments in Tshwane over eighteen years to provide a constitutionally guaranteed basic service, clean potable water, to our people even after the end of apartheid.  This success by Mayor Moya and her team is the kind of thing that reminds me of the reason I said ‘Yes’ to entering politics, to ensure that one by one, the obstacles that sit between poor South African communities and a better life for all get taken away.”

ActionSA lauds the fine collaboration between the various components of the multiparty government in Tshwane, made up of the ANC, EFF, ActionSA, ACDP, ATM, DOP, PAC, PA, GOOD and the AIC, on the one hand and, on the other hand, the progressive support provided by Magalies Water, Gauteng Provincial Government and the National Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) to ensure the success of this water restoration work. The party will continue to offer both encouragement and support for local governments in Tshwane and elsewhere to embrace this era of multiparty collaboration not for party self interest but to fast-track the realisation of the ideals enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.

“Today”, concludes Mashaba, “I feel vindicated and am even prouder proud to be South African.”

Issued by ActionSA President Herman Mashaba