Chair, I hereby give notice that on the next sitting day of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that the Transvaal Agricultural Union, TAU and the National Water Forum, NWF, laid criminal charges against Ministers Buyelwa Sonjica, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Tina Joemat Pettersson, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Susan Shabangu, Minister of Mineral Resources, for alleged failure to protect South Africa's rivers from pollution;
2) notes that these two organisations said that they wrote numerous letters and requests to the three Ministers without any productive responses to alleviate or address the problem;
3) further notes that if this is true, then it is unacceptable that these three Ministers act in such a manner because they are the public servants and have the powers to address the problem; 4) acknowledges that they are also responsible for the wast of taxpayers' money if the court case occurs against government; and
5) requests the three Ministers to set up a consultative meeting with the two organisations to address the problems and to stop the legal actions taken by them.