Water Wars, Makhanda Edition: A truce for Gift of the Givers but water woes continue for Makhanda

, formerly known as Grahamstown, because the humanitarian relief charity would not receive any money for the emergency work it had done since February to bring water to the drought-stricken Eastern Cape municipality. Instead, other contractors, who, Gift of the Givers said, didn’t do any actual work in resolving the water crisis, would get the money.

The municipality has declared that Makhanda was no longer facing a water crisis and it has agreed to compensate Gift of the Givers “to some extent”. According to Gift of the Givers’ statement, invoices are still in the process of being scrutinised, and more will be submitted, in order to determine how much the municipality owes the organisation.

The day after Gift of the Givers threatened with withdrawal, officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation did a full assessment of the work completed by the organisation, as well as “the quality of our intervention”, according to the statement. Gift of the Givers said it would be leaving town and no longer spend its millions to complete the intervention it started.

carienduplessis And Grahamstown National Arts Festival around the corner..will there be sufficient and clean water?

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