THE City of Tshwane has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Danish city of Aarhus to help seek additional funding for Rooiwal upgrades.
The memorandum of understanding was signed by Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink and Aarhus Mayor Jocob Bundsgaard at the Tshwane House on Wednesday, 4 October.
It will also help to improve working relations and collaborations on various projects in the water management field in addition to the exchange of skills.
Brink said winning back the community's trust will be achieved by actions, not by talking.
"Unfortunately, we will not win trust as politicians by speaking, it will be by rolling out upgrades," he said.
He said there was a lot of intervening setbacks, disruptions, unprotected strikes and they will hold each other accountable as stakeholders to fix the water problem in Hammanskraal, Tshwane.
He said the partnership agreement is not about money, but about transfer of expertise.
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"There has been a commitment of funding, which will be paid over to the City of Tshwane. It's money committed in the project of transferring expertise in establishing standard operation procedures in those critical areas," he said.
Brink said the city has been briefed and is committed in investigating all instances of irregularities.
"One of the issues we have is the problem of poor standard operating procedures and funding gap at Rooiwal Waste Treatment. These are the kind of partners that you want to have if you are serious about getting the expertise and getting advice on how to source some of the capital to upgrade Rooiwal Waste Treatment," said Brink.
The mayor said that the city understands the frustration of the people of Hammanskraal. He said much of the plant and infrastructure is decayed and has problems.
Bundsgaard said: "This is a long time commitment. The treating of waste is very important. We need to have strong cooperation to make sure we transfer knowledge, technology and management experiences."
