Hon Deputy Chairperson, I give notice that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move on behalf of the DA:
That the Council -
1) notes that the acid mine water crisis will reach disastrous and irreversible proportions at the Witwatersrand by February 2012;
2) further notes that the critical level will be when the acid mine water reaches a level of 150 m below the surface at the South Western vertical shaft at ERPM just south of Germiston;
3) recognises that it is predicted that a few weeks after February 2012, when the ground water will be contaminated, it will flow into the central business district in Boksburg from the Cinderella East Shaft at an average flow rate of 57 megalitres per day;
4) requests that the task team, Cabinet, and Parliament take this matter and their responsibility seriously in respect of disaster management and prevention, and take immediate necessary action to resolve as much of the disaster as possible with timeous preventative measures within the next few weeks; and
5) calls on the relevant stakeholders to inform this House of the financial management and progress of the process.