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Hammanskraal residents should not fall victim to the lies and misinformation of peddled by the DA which has failed for 8 years to provide the community with clean water and is now scrambling to cover up nearly a decade of incompetence with falsehoods about the Magalies Water Treatment Plant expansion.

The expansion of Magalies Water Treatment Plant is designed to provide 12.5 megalitres of water once the first module of the project is completed by 15 November 2024.

ActionSA believes the DA’s desperate attempts to mislead the public about the Magalies Water klipdrift Water Treatment Plant expansion are indicative of their ongoing failure to take responsibility for or account for their poor governance of the city.

Unsurprisingly, in keeping with their general practice, it is the same DA that has been quick to falsely claim that it single-handedly solicited the bid for the expansion of the Klipdrift Water Treatment Plant.

For weeks, desperate to cling power, Cilliers Brink and Themba Fosi boasted about the project’s advancement. Yet, this week Brink and Fosi suddenly appeared unware of the several delays of experienced by Magalies Water the commissioner of the project.

As former MMC of utilities, Themba Fosi should be reminded of the fact that he sat in the same meeting and acknowledged the delays during his tenure overseeing water provision in the city, which raises obvious questions about his current claims of ignorance regarding the project’s setbacks.

ActionSA wishes to place the following facts on record as explained by on Monday by the City of Tshwane, Magalies Water and the National Department Water and Sanitation.

Magalies Water , the responsible agent for the project explained that it had experienced delays when rock formation was discovered on site. This discovery led to the initial water provision date September being ousted back to October.

Magalies Water then wrote to the National Department of Water and Sanitation detailing how it had encountered further delays with a substation fault in Ekurhuleni in early October.

This unforeseen disaster added about 6 additional days of delays, pushing the project completion for module phase 1 to November 15 ,2024.

The completion of the plant new module which includes testing the water’s safety will require an additional week. This mean residents of Hammanskraal, long neglected by DA incompetence for 8 years will finally receive clean drinkable water.

The delays to the project completion were on Magalies Water and not the city of Tshwane. ActionSA remains concerned that the delays were now being manipulated and abused for political expediency.

ActionSA has for years campaigned including through litigation for the provision of clean water to Hammanskraal. We will never fail residents on delivering on this commitment.

The following areas will benefit from first phase of the project:

• Mandela Village
• Marokolong
• Ramotse
• Kekana Gardens (Steve Bikoville)
• Kudube Unit 9
• Babelegi Industrial and Bridgeview Ward 49,73,74 and 75

As additional modules of the plant expansion are completed, more areas in Hammanskraal will begin to benefit. 

ActionSA continues to demonstrate its commitment to ensuring that the residents of Hammanskraal finally have access to the dignity of clean drinking water, a right that we have tirelessly championed through numerous interventions over the years.

ActionSA is proud to witness this basic need becoming a reality for a community that has endured neglect for far too long.

Issued by ActionSA Tshwane Caucus Spokesperson Tshepiso Modiba