“We need political stability to get to economic stability,” Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber CEO Denise van Huyssteen tells Peter Bruce as they chart their way through Gqeberha’s approaching water crisis.
Yes, while there is no water already in many city taps, and while some local dams have run dry due to years of drought, the fact is Gqeberha has a water management problem rather than an absence of water. The problem is politics. The city has been run by unstable and squabbling coalitions since 2016, chasing the last remaining engineers and artisans out of their jobs. Now the chickens have come home to roost.
In theory, enough water can be pumped into the city from the Gariep Dam hundreds of kilometres away, but work is behind schedule and key pump stations don’t work. Load-shedding doesn’t help. Van Huyssteen has finally persuaded the council to allow businesses to fix leaking pipes, broken substations and other infrastructure. but it is late in the day. If this doesn’t work, nothing will.
Bruceps I failed to understand why this water crisis cannot be the same as the CT one.There were serious blunders & inefficiencies made in the CT water crisis. Now we choose to focus on politics instead focusing on lessons learnt.This campaign of 'us and them' is bad. Provide solutions!
Bruceps Thanks for restoring my happiness in my darkest days, during those period I invested $500 and to my greatest surprise I got a return of $5,500 in just seven days he's reliability can't be equated BernardMason07