Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of Human Settlement, Water and Sanitation
The Director-General (DG) of the Department of Water and Sanitation is currently looking at reprioritising existent funds of about R300 million to set available for drought relief in the Northern Cape.
Spokesperson of the department, Sputnik Ratau, says in the process the DG will also need to engage with National Treasury to sign of the amount which will be used, among others, to access ground water by drilling boreholes in the province. Ratau says this comes after minister Lindiwe Sisulu, members of the Provincial Executive Committee (PEC), administrators and officials from the provincial government in the Northern Cape met on Friday in Kimberley. He says Sisulu and the premier, Zamani Saul, decided…
