Contractors under eThekwini water and sanitation gathered at the eThekwini Municipality water service training center at its Pinetown depot to demand answers. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko
About 60 water and sanitation contractors under the eThekwini Municpality met in Pinetown on Friday morning to demand answers regarding their late payments.
They also took issue with the lack of transparency surrounding their contracts.
The group had requested to meet municipal officials to discuss their concerns, but no one showed up.
Water and sanitation contractors gathered outside the water services depot in Pinetown around 7am on Friday morning to demand answers regarding payments owed to them by the eThekwini Municipality. By 10am, around 60 contractors were waiting for a municipal official to meet them…
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