Press Release

​The municipality has taken a firm stance towards dealing with illegal water connections in the district following the adoption of the Illegal and unauthorised Water Connections Policy adopted during the sitting of the council meeting on 29 April 2021.This policy will effectively aid the municipality in dealing with the widespread domestic and business illegal connections…

​The leadership of the municipality has today held a consultative meeting with representatives of the community of Hibberdene and surrounding areas who are largely affected by water supply disruptions in the area. This meeting forms part of the municipality’s effort to account to its relevant stakeholders on the services of water and sanitation.Today’s meeting provided…

​The municipality would like to advise beachgoers and residents that no recreational activity is allowed at the Margate lagoon and beach.A contractor has started repairs to a faulty pump at the Waste Water Treatment Works and there are possibilities of the Nkongweni River which flows into the Margate Beach being polluted.As a result, it is…

​His Worship, the mayor of Ugu District Municipality Cllr Sizwe Ngcobo has today honoured the best performing matriculants in the district during the award ceremony of the provincial release of the 2020 National Certificate  Results.”Our District schools have produced some of the country’s top performers this year and remains the top achiever among districts in…

​The municipality has assigned a team of electricians to access and source out spares in order to conduct urgent repairs at the Isonti Water Pump Station where electrical panels were found vandalised.On Tuesday this week, upon inspecting the station, engineers found that all electrical cabling had been stolen. Several items such as electrical components, circuit…

​Interference of municipal water infrastructure through acts of sabotage or acts of criminality such as theft of cables and batteries has a direct and negative impact on water provision to our communities.By damaging municipal water infrastructure through theft or sabotage, water supply is interrupted for extended periods, resulting in communities being left without water supply…

​The municipality has diligently been processing the matters contained in the COGTA investigation report which was tabled before the municipal council.And as part of the process of dealing with the matters contained in the report, the municipality has issued the Municipal Manager, Mr DD Naidoo with a notice of an intention to suspend following the…

​The municipality has concluded its internal disciplinary proceedings of six employees within Water Services Department who were among those suspended and charged for various acts of misconduct ranging from failure to report for duty and the misuse of municipal vehicles.Formal charges were being preferred against the concerned employees and they were subjected to internal disciplinary…

​Following the increase of salinity levels at the Umzimkhulu River due to the prevalent high sea tides which are pushing upstream to the St Helen’s Rock abstraction point, the municipality has since halted abstraction of raw water at the St Helen’s Rock pump station. And this poses a real threat to water supply to areas…

​As the country celebrates women during the month of August, yesterday the District woke up to news of a decomposed body of a woman found in a sugarcane field at Umthwalume area under Umzumbe local municipality.The mayor of Ugu District Municipality Cllr Sizwe Ngcobo has expressed a grave concern at these continuing brutal murder of…