Mokonyane claims there’s no money for the Olifants River wall project, says Zille
Western Cape premier Helen Zille said in a Daily Maverick article that Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane had told her that her department did not have the money to raise the Olifants River wall, despite R2bn set aside for the project nearly four years ago. This is likely to raise concerns about the province’s ability to overcome its worst drought in a century. The national government’s interministerial task team has declared the Western Cape a national disaster area. The provincial government said R2bn had been allocated to the project in the 2013-14 financial year. But the water department went on tender to raise the wall despite an internal unit being on site for the project "The department decided to go out on tender instead of using its in-house construction capacity. Speculation was rife, at the height of the Zupta vice-grip on power, that a politically connected consortium had the project in its sights," wrote Zille. Zille said that R100m may have been wasted as ...
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