By Akani Nkuna
Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi said on Saturday that Rand Water had agreed to give Lesedi Local Municipality two weeks’ grace to sort out its finances, after violent service delivery protests in Ratanda over water outages left two people dead and the executive mayor’s property torched.
At a press briefing, Lesufi said he had been “in deep discussions” with Rand Water over the throttling of bulk water supply to the municipality, which had been implemented as part of the water board’s credit-control measures.
“We agreed that the municipality just needs two weeks to sort out its finances. There’s a grant that normally appears in the account of the municipality between the first and 15th of July. We need it as a bridge from what is outstanding from Rand Water,” Lesufi said.
He said the municipality would use its equitable share allocation to pay for its bulk water supply
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