By Lungile Ntimba
KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli has vowed to ensure that there is a thorough investigation into the water supply crisis at schools in Ulundi, including Imbilane High School.
This comes after ActionSA wrote a letter to the premier on Sunday expressing its concern on the Zululand District Municipality’s decision to stop providing water to schools in Ulundi due to the provincial education department’s failure to settle outstanding debts.
ActionSA provincial chairperson Zwakele Mncwango said learners had not had access to water and this had resulted in the disruption of education for two consecutive weeks.
“It is unacceptable that the future of our children is jeopardised by bureaucratic wrangling and unpaid debts between government entities,” Mncwango said.
The media liaison officer at the at premier’s officer, Lindelani Mbatha, confirmed on Wednesday that the Ntuli had requested a detailed report from the education department.
“Once a report has been furnished to the Honourable Premier, the Honourable Premier will thereafter respond and make an intervention if need be,” Mbatha said.
“However, the Honourable Premier is of the view that no school or pupils should be denied access to clean quality water and he will ensure he gets to the bottom of the matter.”
Approached for comment, the department said it was attending to the matter.
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