Question NW2162 to the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
27 September 2021 - NW2162
Mokgotho, Ms SM to ask the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs
What measures have been taken by her department to ensure that the community of Ward 10 in QwaQwa in the Thabo Mofutsanyane District Municipality receive a regular supply of electricity, given that they experience over 12 hours of electricity cuts on a regular basis?
Reply:
1. The Department has;
- seconded MISA engineers to augment technical capacity in the municipality. The engineers have amongst other things developed an infrastructure master plan to inform better planning with respect to the electricity infrastructure. It is anticipated that MISA will also develop an Operations and Maintenance Plan for the municipality and continue to provide technical support, as implementation unfolds.
- Supported the intervention by the Service Delivery Task Team led by the Deputy President to fast track service delivery backlogs in Maluti a Phofung Local Municipality. Amongst the key deliverables of the intervention is the process of facilitating the partnership between Eskom and the municipality through which, Eskom will take over supply of electricity in the municipality for a specific time frame. The process towards legally concluding the partnership is unfolding and the Department is leading the application of sections 78 to 80 of the Municipal Systems Act, 32 of 2000; which is a mandatory undertaking, prior to utilizing an external mechanism to deliver services in a municipality.