Nelson Mandela Metro warned to fix infrastructure before crisis

Booysens Substation in Gqeberha.

African National Congress (ANC) National Chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, has advised the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in the Eastern Cape to attend to infrastructure maintenance before it becomes a crisis.

He conducted an oversight visit at the newly erected 132 Kilovolt cable monopoles that replaced the collapsed cable pylons, which left large parts of Gqeberha in the dark for two weeks earlier this year.

The ANC’s National Working Committee (NWC) is in the metro as part of its service delivery outreach. Mantashe commended the reaction to the pylon collapse.

“The aging infrastructure is not a crisis, it is lack of action that converts into a crisis. The fact that they repaired these towers within 14 days is quite commendable, it reflects practical experience of people who are working on the unit. We wish that they do more and pre-empt a crisis and not allow a crisis to visit them.”

The ANC National Working Committee (NWC) is in the Nelson Mandela Region in the Eastern Cape, assessing the state of the organisation and the real impact of service delivery on communities.

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As part of the #ANCNWCInGqeberha service delivery programme, the ANC National Working Committee led by President Cde Cyril Ramaphosa is in Red Location, New Brighton, conducting oversight on housing developments within the Greater Red Location Precinct.

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