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those resisting transformation. She has also stated that the need to implement transformation and empowerment in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project has resulted in the construction delays.
Urgent questions
Still, opposition party the Democratic Alliance( DA) has requested that Mokonyane urgently appear in Parliament before the Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation to brief members about the current state of her department, and to answer pressing questions regarding alleged gross misconduct on her part relating to the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.
“ Having raised the request in the meeting of the Portfolio Committee, I have written to the chairperson of the committee with a formal appeal. I await a response,” says Leon Basson, DA shadow deputy minister of water and sanitation. According to Basson, the DA has also requested the Public Protector
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to expand their investigation into all major tenders from the time when Zuma appointed Mokonyane as minister of water and sanitation.
“ The DA, by way of a parliamentary question, recently enquired about details surrounding the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, but the response revealed that information would only be made public once the Public Protector’ s investigation was finalised,” says Basson.
He explains that it has now been reported that Mokonyane allegedly misled both Zuma and Lesotho’ s Prime Minister Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili about South Africa’ s water needs.“ Letters between the two statesmen reportedly reveal why there has been a further delay in the implementation of phase 2 of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which has already been delayed by six years, exposing Gauteng to a potential water crisis and serious water shortages,” says Basson.
“ Mokonyane must now appear before the committee to clarify these
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