RC 261016SAfmSakina Kamwendo
Friday, 16 October 2026
Tshwane's pre-election council debate on SAfm was dominated by water shortages and a reported waterborne illness outbreak in Hammanskraal and eastern Tshwane, with parties trading blame ahead of the 4 November poll.
- 12:16
DA says 160 cases of diarrhoea and dysentery have been reported in eastern Tshwane, and claims a water treatment plant there has had no chlorine for three weeks.
- 12:36
Tshwane's mayor says the Klipdrift plant now supplies Hammanskraal with about 50 megalitres a day, and that roughly half of residents have clean drinking water from their taps.
- 12:37
Freedom Front Plus says about 75% of the Roodeval wastewater plant is not operational despite more than R100 million spent on a new contractor, with untreated sewage flowing into the Apies River.
- 12:52
DA accuses the ANC-led coalition of voting for a budget that moved money away from water and electricity to pay water tanker invoices, and says the city must choose capital upgrades over tankers.