The chairperson of Nelson Mandela Metro's Municipal Public Accounts Committee, Jimmy Tutu, says he's confident that the Metro is proactive in terms of responding to infrastructure challenges.
He was speaking to the media on Monday during a visit to Swartkops and surrounding areas following reports of pollution in the Swartkops River caused by raw sewerage flowing into it.
The Municipality says the broken pipes, which led to raw sewerage flowing into the river, have now been fixed.
Tutu says they're just waiting for the test results to determine if the river is still polluted.
"We are waiting for the results so that we can determine in terms of that, because we'll be shown by the outcome of the result, but if any pollution in terms of that we will be able to make sure we rectify it." says Tutu.
Meanwhile, Jenny Rump, from the Swartkops Conservancy, says while the problems have been fixed they're still concerned at the length of time that it took to repair the problem which occurred late last year.
"I'm concerned because it was a month granted, it was kind of the Christmas period, it was a month solid of sewerage going in. I'm also concerned because in 2010 we had 13 holes in the exactly the same 1 kilometer section of the pipe." says Rump.
