Cholera crisis: ActionSA approaches public protector, SAHRC
ActionSA has requested the Office of the Public Protector and the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate the role of the City of Tshwane and its former mayor Randall Williams in the Hammanskraal water crisis.
The party believes the two parties failed to act on the continuous problems at the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The cholera outbreak in the Hammanskraal area has claimed the lives of at least 15 people and dozens hospitalised.
ActionSA’s Tshwane regional chairperson Jackie Mathabathe believes the issues at the Rooiwal plant may have led to the current outbreak.
"If Williams and the city did not delay cancellation of the irregular RWTP tender and delayed the implementation of an investigation report, the current cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal could, in all likelihood, have been avoided,” Mathabathe says.
In 2019 the South African Human Right Commission released a report declaring the water in the region unfit for human consumption after an independent sample analysis by the Council for Industrial and Scientific Research.
Williams resigned from office ahead of a motion of no confidence against him in February.
"In truth, Williams failed dismally to address ActionSA’s concerns with regard to the Hammanskraal water crisis and even delayed the tabling of investigations into it – which contributed, in large part, to ActionSA agitating for his removal at the helm of the city," says Mathabathe.
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