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When Sowetan visited the Hannes Van Niekerk plant we saw what looks like new structures, some with broken switches but there were no workers on site. The Badirile plant has cost the municipality R31m. In 2018 the municipality invited companies to bid for the refurbishment of Hannes Van Niekerk Water Treatment Plant which has so far cost the council R70m. The council will soon add 16 more process controllers to its staff “so that the municipality would be in a position to run its waste water treatment plants by itself”. He further told Sowetan this week that the council had appointed four process controllers in April and that they are doing monthly sampling of the water. This is a capacity-building programme which incorporates the transfer of skills which have been included in the agreement,” wrote Ndlovu.

The municipality has since contracted Rand Water which have been tasked to assist with the operation and maintenance of the plant. “There was insufficient knowledge and capacity in reference to the operation of a bio-waste water treatment works plant of this nature. The Rand West City municipality’s municipal manager Thabo Ndlovu, however, said it had made interventions to fix its Randfontein plant by hiring Rand Water to maintain it and upskill their workers who are meant to carry out work on the site.

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The warning came at the time the City of Tshwane and the department of health scrambled to contain a cholera outbreak that had resulted in 24 deaths in Hammanskraal, one in Mpumalanga and another in Free State. We notified the municipal managers of both municipalities of material irregularities because the discharge of untreated wastewater is likely to cause harm to the general public,” she said. “This had a negative effect on the municipalities’ ability to provide clean water to communities and to preserve the environment. The municipality services Westonaria and Randfontein, west of Joburg. The AG had inspected the city’s Randfontein plant earlier in the year and picked flaws on its management and maintenance. In her consolidated general report on local government audit outcomes 2021/22 released last week, AG Tsakani Maluleke warned that lack of maintenance of waste water plants often resulted in untreated waste water sipping into water sources such as rivers. The Auditor-General of SA (AG) sounded the alarm on Rand West City local municipality and Tshwane metro whose poor maintenance of their waste water treatment plants she said posed a risk of harming the public and the environment. One of Gauteng municipalities which was flagged for poor maintenance of its waste water treatment plant has hired Rand Water to take over its facility.