Cabinet commends progress on Giyani water services project

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11-08-2025
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Cabinet has commended the significant progress in the Giyani Water Services Project, which is currently at 90.23% completion, with the remaining work consisting of pressure testing and commissioning.

The Giyani Water Services Project involves the construction of 325km of bulk pipelines from the Giyani Water Treatment Works (WTWs) to include service reservoirs to supply clean water to 55 villages in and around Giyani, Limpopo.

Briefing media on the outcomes of the Cabinet meetings held on Tuesday, 22 July 2025 and Wednesday, 06 August 2025, Minister in The Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, said Cabinet received an update on the implementation progress of the Giyani Water Intervention Programme, and the project is envisaged to be completed by September 2025.

“Phase 1 of the Giyani 55 Villages Reticulation Project, which involved reticulation and household metered connections for 24 villages, has been completed in 23 of the villages, with reticulation and household connections. The remaining village, Risinga View Village, will be completed by the end of July 2025.

“Phase 2a, which involves reticulation and metered household connections to 15 villages, will be implemented in the 2025/26 financial year, while Phase 2b - covering 16 villages - will be implemented in the outer year of the MTEF [Medium-Term Expenditure Framework],” Ntshavheni said.

The upgrade of the Giyani WTWs from 30Ml/d to 40Ml/d (megalitres per day) and the development of a number of well fields to ensure sufficient water supply to the 55 villages of Giyani is currently in the planning stage, with implementation expected in the third quarter of the current financial year, once the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is finalised.

“Hopefully this will be the last intervention by the department [Water and Sanitation] in Giyani to improve water supply to the 55 villages and the town,” the Minister said.

Significant interventions

The Minister highlighted progress in Giyani water project and interventions that laid the foundation for the current progress, which includes:

•    Nandoni-Nsami Bulk Pipeline – a 40.5 km raw water pipeline from Nandoni Dam in Vhembe, discharging into a canal at Xikukwani and finally gravitating into a balancing dam at Giyani WTWs, which became functional on 5 April 2023 and practically completed in December 2023. It currently supplies Giyani WTWs with an average of 15Ml/d of raw water. Parallel to this line is a .58 treated pipeline, which ends at KwaMsani (Greater Malamulele) under Collins Chabane Local Municipality, which was completed in December 2023.

•    The Refurbishment of Giyani WTWs: Restoration of the plant’s original production capacity to 30Ml/d, which was falling to 13-17Ml/d, was completed in June 2024.

"The completed projects costed an estimated R6 billion, funded by the Department of Water and Sanitation," Ntshavheni said.