Govan Mbeki Municipality Fined R200 Million for Water Infringements

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.GroundWork executive director Bobby Peek said the R200 million penalty “is probably one of the biggest fines to date of a municipality for water infringements”.

Mpumalanga National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Monica Nyuswa said the municipality had committed an act which caused significant pollution to the environment between November 2019 and September 2020. University of the Free State professor of environmental management, Anthony Turton, said the stiff fine was “excellent news”.

“Dr Phillips is getting more aggressive on this matter, and they are seriously considering criminal charges against officials. Basically, I think we are moving in the right direction,” he said. However, he said a recent Durban high court ruling against eThekwini had stated that municipalities do not have a monopoly on the provision of services “which means when municipalities are not giving services then the citizens have the right to procure those services from other independent service providers”.

She said WaterCAn had also laid criminal charges against the City of Joburg’s former acting municipal manager Bryne Maduka, and municipal manager Floyd Brink over their alleged failure to address the sewage flowing into the Klip River.

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