Staff Reporter
ActionSA has praised the Tshwane Municipality for achieving a major milestone in restoring safe, drinkable water to Hammanskraal.
Herman Mashaba, ActionSA president, said the party has consistently advocated for competent, ethical, and experienced leadership at all levels of government to prioritise the needs of citizens.
This vision, Mashaba says, has been realized in Tshwane under the leadership of executive mayor Dr. Nasiphi Moya and her multiparty Mayoral Committee.
Tshwane announced Wednesday that Hammanskraal residents can now safely consume water provided through Phase 1 of the Klipdrift Wastewater Treatment Plant emergency intervention project.
This collaboration between Magalies Water, the National Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), and the City of Tshwane is expected to ensures clean water for communities in Marokolong, Ramotse, Kekana Gardens, Babelegi Industrial, and Mandela Village.
“I’m personally touched by this achievement. It is an emotional one for me because I grew up in Hammanskraal”, said Mashaba.
“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.”
Mashaba also commended the effective collaboration within the Tshwane multiparty government – comprising the ANC, EFF, ActionSA, ACDP, ATM, DOP, PAC, PA, GOOD, and AIC – and the support from Magalies Water, the Gauteng Provincial Government, and the National Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS).
He said that such collaboration should prioritise public service over party interests, fast-tracking the realization of the ideals enshrined in South Africa’s Constitution and Bill of Rights.
“Today,” said Mashaba, “I feel vindicated and prouder than ever to be South African.”
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