THE EFF in the City of Joburg marched to Joburg Water to demand of a clear plan from the water utility on how it plans to resolve water supply problems.
The city has blamed its water issues on old and decaying infrastructure.
Ahead of the anticipated march kicking off the party's resolution to make 2025 a year of the picket line, the party warned that water challenges in the City have reached a critical point, and without urgent intervention, a humanitarian crisis would be inevitable.
“This crisis is a product of systemic failures resulting from, among other things, decades of neglect of the City’s infrastructure, orchestrated corruption, sheer incompetence among those operating the water utility, Johannesburg Water, electricity cuts, tampering with water infrastructure, a growing population, and, to some extent,…