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A top Nelson Mandela Bay official says he does not believe that the debacle over the water quality, which led to the postponement of the SA National Swimming Championships, will seriously damage the Metro's image as a sporting destination.
However, the executive director of economic development and recreational services, Zolile Siswana, says the Metro takes this as a lesson to be learnt, in building and positioning the region as the country's water sport capital.
Siswana fielded tough questions from the media this morning at the Newton Park Indoor Swimming Centre, after a broken water pump led to murky water and the subsequent postponement of the national swimming event, featuring some of the country's top swimmers.
"We are of course going to investigate what went wrong and what could have been avoided so until then we will be able to look at how to fix the problems and how to avoid them and if there are people responsible we will deal with them. It is part of process improvement, because we need to build our staff and we need to build ourselves as an organisation to be able to avoid this happening in the future" Siswana said.
