Within a week after Lobatse High Court Justice, Dr Ookeditse Maphakwane issued an order restraining Tianyuan Construction and G & M Building Joint Venture (JV) from locking access to the chambers to the water tanks and resorting to self-help with respect to the water supply to Ditlharapa, Molete and Mokatako, and any other chamber which is in the possession, custody and use of Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) herein and used for purposes of water supply to any village including the villages of Rakhuna, Matsau, Ramatlabama, Makokwe, Papatlo, Matasalalo, Borobadilepe, Hebron, Legagane Phihetswane and Marojane, the JV has gone ahead and locked up the Phitshane- Molopo pump station.
The two parties are locked in a payment dispute following the completion of the Goodhope District water supply Scheme 2.2. awarded to the JV at P549.6 million.
