The Makana Municipality in the Eastern Cape is in the process of determining how The Gift of the Givers (GoG) will be compensated for its work done in the water scarce town of Makhanda, formerly rahamstown. According to a report on the IoL site, this after the humanitarian organisation withdrew its services earlier this month when it emerged that the municipality would pay R10m to companies from Makhanda for drought intervention work, despite Gift of the Givers undertaking huge emergency relief projects. including the drilling of boreholes. Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said at the time, on a matter of principle Gift of the Givers would leave the town, along with its Jojo tanks and filtration systems they had brought in to relieve the municipality’s water crisis. The intervention had cost the NGO R15m thus far, said Sooliman. The Makana Municipality said it was assessing costs for work done by the NGO. Previously the municipality had said that the organisation had undertaken to do work entirely on ‘risk’. ‘Currently we are in the process of trying to determine how we can compensate them for the work they have already done. Officials from the Department of Water & Sanitation, the Municipal Infrastructure Support Agency, the municipality and GoG have assessed the work that has been done and costed it,’ the municipality said. The municipality also apologised for ‘any misunderstandings’ that occurred leading up to the process asking that the issues not negatively impact its relationship with the NGO.