Pics: Courtesy Blachi Daily News BDM Vhembe District Municipality Executive Mayor Miyelani Chauke aka Mabanana says handing over a borehole to the community of Nghomunghomu in the Collins Chabane Local Municipality is done as a temporary solution, the long term solutions being the reviving of the vandalised water plant that provided water to several villages including Nghomunghomu.
The Executive Mayor said this at Nghomunghomu when he officially handed over the borehole to Hosana Edward Khosa of the Nghomunghomu community. He said some ANC leaders in the community told him about the water challenges facing the community.. “I decided to have a borehole drilled in the area as a temporary measure,” he said. He said the borehole was drilled in the yard of the traditional leader for safety concerns,” he said. He said the problems that he is tackling since he took over a little more than 100 days ago are historical and are problems that have been there for the last ten years or so, ” i am making interventions in several villages including Magona while plans are being made to revive the damaged water plant which cost the government no less than R10-million. Opening the tap, he and the local traditional leader tasted the water to the delight of the community. Hosana Khosa praised Chauke for making such an intervention in his area.
