Broadcast excerpt·SUN, 25 OCT 2026 · 13:03:54–13:04:39 SAST
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That this is going to carry on. Some of these issues, they're not super technical. You know, they don't need billions of rands to fix. Someone needs to crack that work and it needs to be done quickly. Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mashobo says the challenge at the center of the country's water issues is the systems in place at the local government level. He says more needs to be done to resolve the issue. There have been significant failures for.
Various reasons. And in the main, we know that there are still communities that remain unsafe, but there are also communities who have tests that are running dry or tests that have been there and never had water running out. But equally, we will not be able to resolve the problem of water if we don't resolve the systematic challenges that are happening in local government, whether objectively or subjectively. Now, let's shift our focus to election news.
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