SAfm, Wednesday morning

Receiving the report about chlorine, we were told that the manufacturer, there are two manufacturers in Gauteng, who are struggling with pricing for supply of swimming pools, not necessarily water treatment plants that were having. Therefore, it's something that we're dealing with separated from water treatment plants. It was about swimming pools, the issue of chlorine and the manufacturing companies. But this was not elevated to us. Mahalis and Rainwater, they are very close to us. We could have gone to them to provide.

Why they are having, we could have sanctioned Regulation 36 to get supply of this chlorine if we were struggling to get it. Therefore, there's no excuse why you would then run out of stock and you would not do anything about it. That really is an indictment, but I thank you for your honesty over that, MMC. Deputy Minister, I think we're hearing an admission here from the MMC that this was either pure incompetence or laziness, lack of care.

For the people of Tshwane that came into play here. Surely that bothers you? That would be one angle that Joanne could look at: that those who are appointed to work in these particular areas, are they actually suitable the size of the plant that are there? But also, are they professional enough? For an example, you cannot have a situation when you know that your water system is highly contaminated.

And the process of treating water is incomplete when you don't do the final stage, which is called disinfection, where you use chlorine, whatever you want to use. And then deliberately, you allow the water to go. That's a serious negligence and it's unprofessional. Even the professional bodies, they will have to be brought on board if someone is registered as an environmental officer or as an engineer, because that actually borders on ethics. But at the very same time,