{"id":54777,"date":"2023-02-02T10:52:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T08:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/droogte-20230201-6\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:11:22","slug":"droogte-20230201-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/droogte-20230201-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Droogte"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div contenteditable=\"false\" data-embed24=\"Images\" data-pos=\"left\" id=\"embed_ffa3bc8e\">\n<div class=\"slide\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-smallsrc=\"https:\/\/cdn.24.co.za\/files\/Cms\/General\/d\/8217\/046e202fc47648dc859372f70188ef78.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/vistanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/78776bf1eea74995b8f4149f7e413a52.jpg\" title=\"Die hoofwaterpomp wat gebruik word om Matjhabeng van water te voorsien, is nie ten volle werkend nie, en die kleiner pompe wat in gebruik is, is nie voldoende nie. Op die beste bereik die reservoirvlakke skaars 23%, en dit daal dikwels tot tussen 0% en 3%.Foto: Marti Will\"><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Die hoofwaterpomp wat gebruik word om Matjhabeng van water te voorsien, is nie ten volle werkend nie, en die kleiner pompe wat in gebruik is, is nie voldoende nie. Op die beste bereik die reservoirvlakke skaars 23%, en dit daal dikwels tot tussen 0% en 3%.Foto: Marti Will<\/div>\n<div class=\"img_accreditation\"><span class=\"source\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><span class=\"photographer\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>\u00a0Inwoners in Riebeeckstad wat reeds 20 dae sonder water<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0Daar is tot voorstelle om \u2019n klas-aksie teen die munisipaliteit te begin<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0Gemoedere loop hoog omdat niemand werklik kan verduidelik waar die probleem is nie<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>\u00a0Die woonbuurt, met sy meer as 1 000 huishoudings, se betalingskoers van 83%\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inwoners in Riebeeckstad wat reeds 20 dae sonder water is, se emosies wissel van woedend tot moedeloos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sprake van optogte na die munisipale kantoor; die sluiting van die pad tussen Riebeeckstad en Welkom; en om alle geld vir munisipale dienslewering te weerhou, of net \u2019n basiese bedrag te betaal, word nou op alle groepe in die woonbuurt gedeel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daar is tot voorstelle om \u2019n klas-aksie teen die munisipaliteit te begin.<span><em>Carte Blanche<\/em><\/span>is gekontak, asook verskeie televisie-nuuskanale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inwoners het klagte ingedien by die Suid-Afrikaanse Mensregtekommissie, die president se noodlyn vir klagtes, asook AfriForum. Inwoners dring nou aan op \u2019n vergadering met Matjhabeng se burgemeester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gemoedere loop hoog omdat niemand werklik kan verduidelik waar die probleem is nie, s\u00ea Chrystelle Erasmus, inwoner sedert 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die oorname van Sedibeng deur Bloemwater word as \u2019n algehele mislukking beskou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In di\u00e9 stadium is dit net die hoogliggende dele van die woonbuurt wat geen water het nie. Inwoners met boorgate en die NG Erfdeel-gemeente het hul hekke oopgegooi vir diegene wat water nodig het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op 24 Januarie is \u2019n verklaring uitgereik dat die pompe by De Erf nie werk nie; om die pompe te herstel, moet die pypleiding leeg wees en gedreineer word. Kenners op hierdie gebied het dit afgemaak as die \u201cgrootste klomp snert\u201d wat hulle nog gehoor het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riebeeckstad se water\u00adprobleem het sedert 2020 baie vererger en statistieke toon dat die woonbuurt maandeliks \u2019n hele paar dae sonder water is. Die afgelope paar maande, sedert Oktober verlede jaar, het die dae weke geword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die woonbuurt, met sy meer as 1 000 huishoudings, se betalingskoers van 83% is van die hoogste in Matjhabeng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erasmus s\u00ea Riebeeckstad moes nog altyd aan die agterspeen suig, al is dit een van die grootste woonbuurte in Matjhabeng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns word nou tot breekpunt gebring. Dit is onmenslik om so lank sonder water te wees \u2013 en \u2019n skending van menseregte. As groot areas in die land twee of drie dae sonder water is, word dit op alle nuuskanale uitgesaai, maar hier raak dit weke lank. As ons vir \u2019n dag of twee water kry, jubel almal oor water, wat eintlik \u2019n basiese reg is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nog \u2019n jarelange inwoner, Dirk Kotze, s\u00ea die gebrek aan inligting en kommunikasie is vir hom die grootste probleem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar word nie oop kaarte gespeel nie, almal het \u2019n ander storie, en Riebeeckstad se besighede kry ook swaar. 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