Note to Editors: Please find attached our Notice of Motion, Founding Affidavit, Further Supplementary Affidavit and Replying Affidavit.
The Democratic Alliance in KwaZulu-Natal has become the first political party to secure a trial date in the High Court against the eThekwini Municipality for the ongoing sewage and water crisis in the city. The trial is set to begin on the 8th of August 2024.
After launching the case in February 2023, the ANC-run eThekwini Municipality has done everything possible to evade this day of reckoning. It even required the KZN Judge President, Thoba Portia Poyo-Dlwati, to instruct eThekwini by way of a court order to file answering affidavits to the DA’s papers so the case could proceed.
The DA has spared no expense and hired the very best lawyers to bring this case before the courts in terms of the National Environmental Management Act (NEMA) because we understand the importance of this issue not only to the people of eThekwini, but all of KwaZulu-Natal.
The DA is the only party that has taken this issue seriously while other parties have done nothing except post pictures of themselves pointing at broken pipes.
This is the kind of response and commitment that the residents of KwaZulu-Natal can expect from a DA Provincial Government. Less words, more delivery.
Furthermore, this marks a series of court cases that the DA is fighting on behalf of residents across the province and we will soon be announcing further action that we will be taking against other municipalities.
There is only one party with a proven track record of getting things done and that is the Democratic Alliance.