Hon House Chair, the Moqhaka Local municipality in the Free State has permitted the Vals River to be polluted by raw sewage that flows into the river from various sewage overflows for a number of years.
Recently, the municipality intentionally permitted the local toilet paper factory to render research system around it in such chaos that these too are now contributing to the pollution problem.
The local Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camps, a national heritage sites is completely covered in west coast by this creating a most unfortunate and unacceptable situation.
The FF Plus laid criminal charges against the municipal manager of Moqhaka Local Municipality for the contravention of the relevant National Environmental Management Act. We employ the Department of Co-operative Governance to intervene in Moqhaka and ensure that they enforce their own bylaws.
We also employ the Department of Water and Sanitation to prioritise the contravention of the Nema, National Environmental Management Act, by local government on an urgent basis. Let us make no mistake. The pollution of our water sources which are already under immense stain is a criminal act and those responsible must held accountable. I thank you.
Mr A M SEABI (ANC) MALUTA 27/02/2020 / TAKE ENDS AT 15:56