I'm getting really tired very quickly of these politicians and their games of toying with people's lives.
For three weeks, untreated water was pumped into residential areas in Tshwane. THREE WEEKS. They knew they were out of chlorine, and their resolve was to: Just send it.
The utter disregard for public safety is sickening.
I don't think people fully appreciate just how outrageous this is, because if they did, there'd be France in Tshwane.
We are talking about one of the most basic responsibilities of government: providing people with clean, safe drinking water. Not some luxury service. Not some ambitious infrastructure project. WATER.
People pay their rates and taxes, trusting that the water coming out of their taps is safe for their families to drink, cook with and bathe in.
And somehow, in 2026, we have reached a point where even that trust is misplaced?
What ABSOLUTELY infuriates me is how we've become so accustomed to government FAILURE that something this serious risks becoming just another headline for them to mudsling at each other.
This is not normal. It is not acceptable.
And it should NEVER be treated as just another service delivery problem.
When a government cannot even guarantee that the water entering people's homes is safe, we have moved well beyond incompetence. We are talking about a fundamental failure of its duty to protect the people it serves.
What exactly are South Africans paying for anymore?
[BREAKING] More than 400 gastrointestinal and diarrhoea cases have been reported in Bronkhorstspruit, Pretoria East. The outbreak follows the City's failure to chlorinate water at the Bronkhorstspruit Water Works. Tune in to #eNCA on #DStv403.