#TheAfricanWay is when something as mundane, yet vital as a pump, is allowed to be STOLEN from the local sewage treatment plant and instead of replacing it, pump raw sewage into the field, causing a massive stink, posing a health risk, looking terrible and seeping through to ground water, which is needed by local farmers who have to drill boreholes to give water to their animals.
This is exactly what the Nala municipality in the Free State – Bothavillle and Wesselsbron – is doing. The local VF+ political party has now laid criminal charges against the acting municipal manager at the Wesselsbron Police station, in terms of the Water Act, Act on Waste Management and National Environment Management Act.
As in the case of most ANC Municipalities, it seems the Municipal officials were to busy stealing themselves to do their actual jobs, and that corruption was their primary activity, as the Nala Municipality manager, Buti Piet Molupi, was arrested for security tende
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