SAfm, Wednesday morning

Without warning the residents, leading to over 400 cases of serious illness, mostly children under four. The Democratic Alliance is now calling for the mayor, Dr. Nasiphi Moya, to resign, saying that her admission of negligence is not enough. The party has also laid a criminal case. For more on this, we are joined on the line by Alderman Cilliers Brink, the DA Tshwane mayoral candidate. A very good morning to you, sir, and welcome. Good morning, Albert. Good to talk to you. You filed a complaint with the

South African Human Rights Council and open a criminal case. But what specific constitutional rights do you believe have been violated here in Broncosprade? So I think the first violation was of a statutory obligation by the municipality not simply to provide clean water but to inform the public once they knew that the water was not being treated. You know, the law lays down 12 hours as the requirement from which to inform the

Public to say you must either boil your water or you must not use the water at all. It took the municipality three weeks to inform the public that the water was not suitable for human consumption or for cooking or even to take a bath in, quite frankly. Raw, untreated water. So the human right affected is the right to access to services and to be informed of dangers which are within the control.

Of the municipality. It's completely unacceptable. This is not an infrastructure failure. This is an operational failure. This is somebody who just doesn't treat water and doesn't inform the public. Now, Dr. Moya yesterday said that the municipality did not inform them of the shortage of chlorine. But you say that the mayor hid the chlorine shortage for three weeks. What evidence does the DA have to support this? Elvis, the mayor is the municipality. The mayor cannot say the municipality.

didn't inform me. You elect an executive mayor and you give them extensive delegated powers in order to give political direction to the municipality. If Nasiphi Moya is somehow separate from the municipality, she shouldn't be the mayor. She should do something else where she doesn't have to attend to problems and know what's going on in her own city. The fact is, she speaks for the municipality. On Friday last week, she said that.

The water had not been chlorinated since the weekend, in other words, for a few days. On Monday, she says that the water hasn't been chlorinated since the 24th of September. So she clearly pretends now to know what's going on, but when it doesn't suit her, she's not the municipality. This is absolutely unacceptable. Anybody who's listening to this would come to the conclusion that Matsipi Moya is wholly unsuited for the position of mayor.