Water wars on campaign trail
ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont called out Brink for what he described as a new low.
As political parties engage in campaigns, farmers face a critical issue – lack of water supply. In preparation for the upcoming El Nino season, candidate Cilliers Brink of DA Tshwane launched a billboard in Hammanskraal, urging residents to vote for their party to receive running water instead of tankers. Brink revealed that after ActionSA intervened and removed the DA-led government, the city spent R777 million on water tankers during the first financial year.
However, ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont criticized Brink for launching a billboard about water shortages in a community where residents suffered from cholera in 2023 due to a water crisis. He specifically cited the DA's failure to upgrade the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant over 18 years, which led to 31 deaths in Hammanskraal from cholera.
Theunis Vogel, a farmer in the area, expressed his frustration, stating that the Rooiwal sewage works have effectively stopped working, with all sewage being discharged into the Apies River and eventually reaching farmlands. Vogel demanded urgent action from the Department of Water against officials who failed to comply with court orders, particularly in cleaning farmers' dams like the Brits dam.
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