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Speaker 1: services of some kind. I fully understand that with petrol,

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Speaker 1: Now three rand is also coming off the fuel levee

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Speaker 1: on diesel. However, if the price of diesel is recommended

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Speaker 1: and therefore discretionary, what is there to stop people selling

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Speaker 1: diesel from saying, Okay, well I only put up the

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Speaker 1: They will not in the direction of the three rand rebate.

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Speaker 1: It's not a rebate, the three rand relief that you

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Speaker 1: absolutely get that full three rand on diesel if it's

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Speaker 1: a recommended price. Is there anyone who understands the mechanics

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Speaker 1: on that. But if you're already in the know or

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Speaker 1: wiser than me, because as you can hear, i'm you know,

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Speaker 1: searching for an explanation and some clarity on this particular one,

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Speaker 1: their wafer for a bit wafer a bit. Thank you, Mike,

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Speaker 1: keep those coming please. The question we asked you is

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Speaker 1: what is that thing that you would absolutely love to

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Speaker 1: have an abundant lifetime supply of, so much so that

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Speaker 1: you might be willing to go to extreme lengths for it.

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Speaker 1: So far we've got Cabazella who would do anything to

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Speaker 1: have enough golf balls and a good supply of what

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Speaker 1: was it cookies and cream ice cream? I think it was.

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Speaker 1: You'll let me know if I got that wrong. And

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Speaker 1: for Karabochli, it is freezers full of red meat. Twenty

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Speaker 1: four minutes past three, drive home with John Pellman on seven.

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Speaker 2: Or two Let's talk the talk.

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Speaker 1: We focused a lot on the water shortage problems in Johannesburg,

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Speaker 1: perhaps less than we should have on comparable issues out

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Speaker 1: in the City of Twine. But today Executive Mayor of

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Speaker 1: the Metro and Nasipi Moya has been talking about various

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Speaker 1: stab steps that they are going to be taking to

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Speaker 1: try and stabilize the water situation. Some of it focuses

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Speaker 1: on tankers that they have actually gone out and bought,

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Speaker 1: insisting that their dependence on private suppliers of tanker services

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Speaker 1: ew and reporter was out there covering this and joins

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Speaker 1: us now Alpha very good afternoon to tell us first

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Speaker 1: of all about the overall plan and where tankers fit

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Speaker 1: in with what the City of Twina is planning to do.

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Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, John. You would remember that you

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Speaker 2: would know that how thing has been facing some water

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Speaker 2: supply challenges over the past few years, and so the

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Speaker 2: reliance on water tankers has grown rapidly, and we've seen

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Speaker 2: both City of Twina and the City of Johannesburg really

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Speaker 2: depending on water tankers to supply communities during times of

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Speaker 2: difficulty and times of need. And so the City of

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Speaker 2: Twine has decided now to insource water tanker services, so

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Speaker 2: that you would know that across the board, they usually

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Speaker 2: contract the service of water tankers to the private sector,

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Speaker 2: and we've heard all sorts of corruption allegations in this

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Speaker 2: specific ministry or sector, both in Jobek and Swine. Hearing

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Speaker 2: that this corruption when it comes to water tanker businesses.

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Speaker 2: Some politicians are allegedly involved in some of the water

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Speaker 2: tanker businesses and the City of Twina has now decided

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Speaker 2: to insource that responsibility. So as of the first of April,

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Speaker 2: which is tomorrow, water tankers emergency water tankers in the

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Speaker 2: City of Twine will be under the control of the municipality.

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Speaker 2: So they've purchased about fifteen new water tankers, is going

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Speaker 2: to add on to the already existing fleet, which means

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Speaker 2: they now have about forty one water tankers which are

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Speaker 2: going to be readily available in times of emergency. So

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Speaker 2: these water tankers will be used specifically tron when there's

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Speaker 2: City of Twinya. However, in formal settlement and other communities

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Speaker 2: that still don't have water will be supplied by water

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Speaker 2: tankers that are owned by the private sector or contracted

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Speaker 2: water tankers, So the insourcing is specifically for the emergency

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Speaker 2: water tankers, but for daily use and daily need, the

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Speaker 2: private sectors film very much going to be involved.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, I would have thought that people would

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Speaker 1: have had contracts, and that contract would have in some

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Speaker 1: some of that work and some of that water is

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Speaker 1: explain what happens to those contracts? I mean, the worst

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Speaker 1: people being paid for something that they're not actually delivering.

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Speaker 2: Well, you would know that the financial year is about

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Speaker 2: to start and saw the contracts which had been there

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Speaker 2: in the previous financial year years could have lapsed, and

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Speaker 2: the contracts which were being used for supply communities that

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Speaker 2: already don't have water are still there. Right. Some of

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Speaker 2: the companies as well will move from emergency to helping

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Speaker 2: with daily operations those informal settlements which don't have water

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Speaker 2: at all. But the emergency division is going to be

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Speaker 2: the competence of the municipality and so there's no company

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Speaker 2: that's going to have a contract. As of the first

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Speaker 2: of April, which is tomorrow, everything will be controlled and

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Speaker 2: run by the municipalities. The drivers are employed by the municipality.

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Speaker 2: There's about twenty three of them so far. These vehicles

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Speaker 2: are owned and maintained by the municipality as well, and

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Speaker 2: this is specifically for the emergency water tankers which are

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Speaker 2: now under the municipality. But the contracts are still there

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Speaker 2: for those who are on the ground each and every

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Speaker 1: And in terms of the support stuff, I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: one thing to have tankers, but you need drivers, you

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Speaker 1: need I would have thought quality control people who make

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Speaker 1: sure that the water that gets uploaded and then distributed

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Speaker 1: is of the correct quality. Does this mean more jobs?

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Speaker 1: They're going to have to hire some people to deliver

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Speaker 1: the service. I don't know if that came up.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they did hire new people to assist in that regards,

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Speaker 2: but they only spoke about the drivers, which is currently

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Speaker 2: twenty three drivers and about forty one vehicles in their fleet,

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Speaker 2: forty one trucks in their fleet, and so those at

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Speaker 2: the moment are the only people who we know have

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Speaker 2: been hired. But the city of China has been having

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Speaker 2: those resources to clean and make sure that the water

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Speaker 2: in the tankers are clean because the water tankers, the

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Speaker 2: private water tankers were working together with the municipality. So

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Speaker 2: those systems are still in place. It doesn't change. They

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Speaker 2: still use the various systems, very same systems that they

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Speaker 2: had which they used at the private sector, just that

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Speaker 2: this time around they owned the water tankers and the

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Speaker 2: drivers are under their employee.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Alfa Ramushwana. If you live out in

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Speaker 1: the city of Twina, please do give us your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on what the mayor and her team were announcing today.

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Speaker 1: Step in the right direction, give us a call on

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