Mayor tackles Tshwane’s water woes
Solly Msimanga issues a R2bn tender to clean up contaminated water in Hammanskraal
Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga appears to be making good on his campaign promises and has issued a R2bn tender to modernise Hammanskraal’s water purification centre and drafted a plan to resolve the metro’s housing and electricity issues. His work is cut out for him after taking office in August following a coalition with other parties that led to the DA governing in the metro. Tshwane is the largest metro in Gauteng, spanning more than a third of the province’s geographical area, and it has huge issues with water provision, housing and electricity. "We’re in the process of finalising a R2bn-plus tender, which will then see the issue of water in Hammanskraal being resolved once and for all," Msimanga says. Contaminated water in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, has made many people ill. The town’s water supply has been of poor quality for years, but the situation worsened in October and residents marched to the city’s offices demanding a permanent solution. The problem was compounded w...
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