R48 billion and still unfinished: MPs question ballooning costs of Giyani water project
Parliament’s water and sanitation portfolio committee heard on Tuesday that the long-running Giyani water intervention in Limpopo has cost far more than originally projected and remains incomplete more than a decade after it was meant to be finished, prompting sharp questioning from MPs about how the project’s budget spiralled so dramatically.
The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) told the committee that the Giyani intervention began in earnest in 2021, when officials took steps to coordinate and accelerate work that had previously been poorly sequenced.
Officials told the committee that the Nandoni pipeline, which carries raw water from the Nandoni Dam, was completed in December 2023.
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