Stop criticism and look for solutions
I JUST love the way the ANC attacks the DA for “taking shortcuts” to solve our current water shortage, saying that it should look at a “broader picture” (“Bay taps running dry”, December 2).
Well, that’s the pot calling the kettle black (as the saying goes).
How broad a picture would councillor Andile Mfunda like the DA to take, considering the DA has only been in power for the past few months, whereas the ANC was in power from 1994. He admits that the city (under ANC control) had faced a drought in 2010 and that a plan had been drafted to address the very same problem we are now faced with.
What has happened since 2010, councillor Mfunda? Is this the “broad view”, that is six years, you are referring to?
So, the obvious conclusion would be that this “plan” that was proposed at that time was either left in the “proposed” state and never implemented or was implemented and did not render the desired results, hence the fact that the problem is now at our doorstep (again) although being faced by the new owners.
It is also noted that he calls it the “water master plan” and it would therefore be of interest if the councillor could publish the detail of such a master plan in the newspaper so residents could be made aware of such a plan that obviously did not work.
Perhaps the ANC-led government also omitted to look at a broader solution although it did propose such a “master plan”.
He also accuses the DA of not attending to water leaks. Did the ANC attend to water leaks?
Probably not, because if it did, the municipality would not be faced with the enormous wastage of water currently being realised.
Does the councillor, or for that matter anybody, think that these problems, that stared the ANC in the face every day for the past number of years, would simply be fixed in a matter of a few months?
Is it not time for the ANC, instead of looking for faults and criticising the DA, rather to start working together to find solutions for the many problems that face our country and its people daily?