'Rich people' wasting SA water
Vanderbijlpark - South Africa is a water-poor country, but, even today, whites don't care about it.
Nor did they care about it before 1994, said Professor Dennis Goldberg, adviser to Water Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica, on Monday at the South Gauteng water summit held in Vanderbijlpark.
Goldberg, who read out Sonjica's speech, deviated from it and said South Africa was one of the 30 driest countries in the world.
He added that although white people did not care how much water they used, the government did and was doing everything in its power to set matters right.
Altogether 40% of the water bought from Rand Water in southern Gauteng, was wasted - "It amounts to millions of rands."
Goldberg also lashed out at local authorities and said the present rate at which rivers in the country were being polluted by sewage had to be stopped.
"We can't go on like this," he said.
"Sorry" if he had been misunderstood
"It's as though we're transfixed in the headlights of an oncoming car. We don't know what to do."
During a tea break, Goldberg agreed when asked by Beeld if he really had meant white people didn't care about water.
Later, however, he said he "actually" meant rich people wasted water.
He said he might have been misunderstood and that he was "sorry" if this was the case.
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