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VUMATEL: SIX ‘ACCIDENTS’ REPORTED
Fibre cables cause water
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ater supply to parts of Parow have been disrupted intermittently over the past few weeks, apparently as a result of contractors hitting water pipes while digging trenches. Since the contractors started digging trenches to install fibre cables, six such accidents have already been recorded, one resident told TygerBurger. The construction workers, the resident say, are employed by Vumatel, an internet service provider. “So far six water pipes had been hit. This affects the water pressure. Recently we did not have water for an entire day,” Janine de Wee, a resident in Smith Street, Parow, say. She says at one point it took the City of Cape Town’s repair team about 24 hours to repair a water pipe. Another time a pipe was hit so badly in Third Avenue that the water flowed down the road like a river, she says. “At the end of the day, we are the ones suffering.” At the time of the interview De Wee had no running water as a result of one of these accidents. “I have been speaking to the municipal workers who confirmed that it is the Vumatel contractors. It is frustrating for us as residents. They need to be held accountable.” In response, Ewald van der Westhuizen,
regional director for Vumatel in Cape Town, told the newspaper that Vumatel is doing its best to mitigate the risk of damaging services. “Unfortunately damages to services on a large scale civil project are impossible to avoid in its entirety due to a number of factors. The total area is just over 66 kilometres of trenching of which we have already completed 64,8 kilometres. Thus we are at the end of the project with only 1,2 kilometres of trenching remaining and hope to have the entire area live with fibre at the end of November,” Van der Westhuizen says. Vumatel is currently installing fibre to homes in the Parow, Glenlily, Fairfield Estate and Churchill Estate. Van der Westhuizen says every service that gets damaged is logged and tracked. “We are aware of the water damages that occurred. The project was suspended last week so that we could assess the reasons for these damages occurring and to ensure we learn from the mistakes.” To prevent further damage, the company has decided that any remaining drill work, will be inspected by their consulting engineer, KWCE on behalf of the City, as well as their own project management staff. “We understand that there may be some pains during the roll-out, but we believe that it is all worth the benefits of installing fibre into the community in the end,” Van der Westhuizen adds. V To page 5
“... a pipe was hit so badly in Third Avenue that the water flowed down the road like a river”
The Western Cape department of health recently awarded some of its staff for their hard work and dedication during its 2019 Nursing Service Excellence and Cecilia Makiwane Awards ceremony. A total of 31 nurses were nominated and recognised by their peers for these prestigious awards. The awards seek to recognise nursing and midwifery excellence and motivates nurses and midwives working in all fields. These nurses go the extra mile in fostering high professional standards, ethics, management, leadership and values of the department, a spokesperson says. Lusanda Nduneni from Parow, a nurse at Tygerberg Hospital, was one of those recognised for her work in the Midwifery Nursing category. “I am so excited because this nomination proves that I am being recognised as one of those nurses who add value in the workplace. It also shows that others are aware of my contributions in making a difference in the lives of the patients that we all serve,” Lusanda says. Her positive persona and outlook rub off on her team members as she leads by example, a hospital spokesperson says. PHOTO: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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