Chairperson, we have established a close corporation arrangement with the Department of Water and Environmental Affairs in keeping with our operational stance of mobilising actors in the service delivery chain to respond in a co-ordinated fashion. The idea is to respond to the community's needs in the delivery of water as a basic service. In terms of this arrangement, we identified critical areas to be considered as priority areas that needed our joint effort. Ingwavuma, in the Umkhanyakude District, is one of the 23 districts nationally prioritised for development. The universal access plan for the Umkhanyakude District includes the upgrade of the Sewula water treatment works, the borehole and the refurbishment of waterworks and schemes.
Further to this, Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs funded the Ingwavuma ventilated improved pit sanitation project in 2011-2012 from the municipal infrastructure grant to the value of R142 588 855, and it is funding the construction of the Ingwavuma sportsfield ablution block to the value of R329 million in 2012-2013.