Gwede Mantashe, chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) and Energy Minister, has refuted claims that the ruling party is providing services to attract votes in next year’s elections.
He was addressing on the margins of the Presidential Imbizo in the Eastern Cape, where thousands of communities discussed their service delivery concerns with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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According to Mantashe, services are not provided solely to garner votes.
“I listen to people saying that we want to deliver projects now because there are elections. Now, I reminded some of the people said that … if we deliver a water project here because there are elections, they must appreciate that because after elections we are not going to come back and fetch that water project.
“If we connect people to electricity, we not going to come back and take that electricity. We’ll have to deal with load shedding, that’s all we need to do but they’ll be connected,” adds Mantashe.
President Ramaphosa has assured residents of the Intsika Yethu local municipality that their water problems will be resolved shortly. He claims that the government will spend an additional R6 billion to upgrade the Tsomo Water Treatment Centre, on top of the R6 billion already invested.
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“Now this is a world class water project in a rural area where the apartheid government never wanted to plant any development projects it is now here in this deep rural area in the Chris Hani District and it is pumping 25 megalitres of water and it is now going to improve that to 42 megalitres everyday.”
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