The Amathole district municipality (ADM) needs more than R900-million to eradicate sanitation backlogs.
The excludes the R631-million the municipality was lent by National Treasury last year to build 66000 toilets for rural communities around the municipality.
The money was a loan from the Developmental Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
The project ran into major problems which led to the funding being halted by Treasury and the implementing agent for the project, the Siyenza Group, given the boot.
Presenting a progress report on ADM infrastructure projects to representatives of the National Council of Province (NCOP) yesterday, ADM mayor Nomasikizi Konza expressed frustration due to the delays hampering the completion of the more than R500-million project.
“We are pleading to the National Treasury to allow us to continue with the project, but we change tactic and cut the middle man ,” Konza pleaded with parliament representatives.
She also announced that to date only 27000 toilet units of the 66000 had been built.
“If we start now, by the end of this financial year we would finish,” she said.
The project was halted about three months ago when the municipality terminated its contract with Siyenza Group.
It follows the termination by the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (Misa) in the Northern Cape on a similar project run by Siyenza.
The Northern Cape project, worth R119-million, was canned after an investigation by Misa found that the Siyenza Group submitted tax certificates that had not been issued by the South African Revenue Services (SARS).
Konza also told the NCOP that between water and sanitation, the municipality faced major backlogs.
Between the 2012-13 and 2014-15 financial years, the percentage of households with basic sanitation increased from 43% to 64% while the percentage with basic water services increased from 65% to 91%.
In total the municipality needed more than R1.2-billion to eradicate both sanitation and water backlogs.
Buffalo City Metro (BCM) executive mayor Alfred Mtsi and BCM’s head of infrastructure Nceba Ncunyana said BCM needed more than R600-million to deal with sanitation backlogs.
The members of the NCOP are in a week-long visit to various Eastern Cape municipalities which include OR Tambo district municipality and Nelson Mandela Metro. — siphem@dispatch.co.za
R900m needed to eradicate sanitation backlogs
The excludes the R631-million the municipality was lent by National Treasury last year to build 66000 toilets for rural communities around the municipality.
The money was a loan from the Developmental Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA).
The project ran into major problems which led to the funding being halted by Treasury and the implementing agent for the project, the Siyenza Group, given the boot.
Presenting a progress report on ADM infrastructure projects to representatives of the National Council of Province (NCOP) yesterday, ADM mayor Nomasikizi Konza expressed frustration due to the delays hampering the completion of the more than R500-million project.
“We are pleading to the National Treasury to allow us to continue with the project, but we change tactic and cut the middle man ,” Konza pleaded with parliament representatives.
She also announced that to date only 27000 toilet units of the 66000 had been built.
“If we start now, by the end of this financial year we would finish,” she said.
The project was halted about three months ago when the municipality terminated its contract with Siyenza Group.
It follows the termination by the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency (Misa) in the Northern Cape on a similar project run by Siyenza.
The Northern Cape project, worth R119-million, was canned after an investigation by Misa found that the Siyenza Group submitted tax certificates that had not been issued by the South African Revenue Services (SARS).
Konza also told the NCOP that between water and sanitation, the municipality faced major backlogs.
Between the 2012-13 and 2014-15 financial years, the percentage of households with basic sanitation increased from 43% to 64% while the percentage with basic water services increased from 65% to 91%.
In total the municipality needed more than R1.2-billion to eradicate both sanitation and water backlogs.
Buffalo City Metro (BCM) executive mayor Alfred Mtsi and BCM’s head of infrastructure Nceba Ncunyana said BCM needed more than R600-million to deal with sanitation backlogs.
The members of the NCOP are in a week-long visit to various Eastern Cape municipalities which include OR Tambo district municipality and Nelson Mandela Metro. — siphem@dispatch.co.za
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