Improvements to water and energy infrastructure must continue in the New Year, President Jacob Zuma said in his new year’s statement.
“[In 2014], we celebrated the milestone of 11 million connections to electricity since 1994,” he said, according to a report by Moneyweb. “This successful programme has brought into sharp focus the need to speed up the upgrading and expansion of the energy infrastructure, which had been designed to serve just a few and a smaller economy before 1994.” Zuma said that similarly “on-going work to expand and upgrade water infrastructure” was needed. During 2014 there were water and electricity cuts in various parts of the country. Zuma said government had taken measures to “assist and revitalise state-owned enterprises that are facing difficulties”. He added that the general elections in May were “successful” and “vibrant”, proving South Africa was a “stable democracy”.
Service delivery had improved in a number of areas, he noted.
