The Gauteng Premier’s Coordinating Forum has resolved to establish the Gauteng Infrastructure Coordinating Council.

At a meeting last week to address the Gauteng water crisis, the forum discussed practical steps required to radically transform, modernise and reindustrialise the province in order to realise the vision of an integrated, sustainable, socially cohesive and economically inclusive province.

It identified the need for closer cooperation on planning, coordination, management and financing of infrastructure in the province, and in this regard agreed to establish the Gauteng Infrastructure Coordinating Council.

This council will provide for the facilitation of strategic economic and social infrastructure development; identify catalytic projects; improve management of infrastructure during all life-cycle phases; and coordinate the financing of infrastructure, including sourcing of alternative financing options.

“We will establish the Gauteng Infrastructure Coordinating Commission in line with the Presidential Infrastructure Coordinating Commission to look at infrastructure needs for the province,” said Pemier David Makhura

 

Gauteng water shortages

The meeting chaired by Makhura and attended by the mayors of all municipalities in Gauteng, received a full briefing by Rand Water and Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane on the current water shortage in Gauteng.

Rand Water assured the Premier’s Coordinating Forum that it had taken steps to address all technical problems and was working around the clock to restore normal uninterrupted supply of water in Gauteng.