Scores of irate stakeholders and other interested parties were this week belatedly invited to meet Mchunu at the Emerald Resort and Casino in Vanderbijlpark today.

This after a threatened boycott against original government plans to meet at Gallagher Estates in Sandton. Klippies Kritzinger, CEO of the Golden Triangle Chamber of Commerce (GTCoC) was angered by the fact that the minister was not intending to come to the Vaal at all.

Kritzinger issued the “Speedo Challenge” after it became evident that the newly appointed Minister had no intention of either visiting the Vaal of his own volition or kick-starting the R7 billion plus clean-up project started by his predecessor, now Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu.
Mchunu was not expected to take up the Speedo Challenge, said reliable sources in his Ministry, but would possibly be open to taking a luxury Vaal River cruise, still on offer. Mchunu and senior Water and Sanitation officials accused of neglecting the R7 Billion plus Vaal River sewage pollution project can thus expect the full ire of stakeholders firmly convinced the project is already again mired in corruption and bureaucratic in-fighting.