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Drops of water running from a tap.
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in Phoenix, north of Durban, is calling for the immediate resignation of eThekwini Municipality City Manager Musa Mbhele and the head of Water Services Ednick Msweli.
IFP councillor Dr. Jonathan Annipen is accusing Mbhele, Mswele and other top city officials of neglecting to provide essential water service delivery to residents of Phoenix and surrounding areas north of Durban.
Dr. Annipen says residents and businesses of Ward 48 in Phoenix have been left without water for almost two weeks. He says despite their countless calls for immediate and meaningful interventions, their cries have fallen on deaf ears.
“The IFP being in the position that we are in right now in eThekwini, a custodian of the training services cluster intends on using our position to ensure that we hold accountable these officials who fail to bring services to our people. The people that really must go is the city manager and the acting DCM because he has been the head of water and under his watch the water infrastructure in eThekwini has completely collapsed and it is the ratepayer who is suffering and it is the same ratepayer who is paying these multi million-rand salaries.”
